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Functional Reorganization Associated with Semantic Language Processing in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Patients after Anterior Temporal Lobectomy : A Longitudinal Functional Magnetic Resonance Image Study
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- Issue Date
- 2010-01
- Publisher
- KOREAN NEUROSURGICAL SOC
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF KOREAN NEUROSURGICAL SOCIETY; Vol.47 1; 17-25
- Keywords
- fMRI ; Hippocampus ; Brain plasticity ; Language ; Epilepsy
- Abstract
- Objective : The focus of this study is brain plasticity associated with semantic aspects of language function in patients with medial temporal lobe epilepsy (mTLE). Methods : Using longitudinal functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), patterns of brain activation were observed in twelve left and seven right unilateral mTLE patients during a word-generation task relative to a pseudo-word reading task before and after anterior temporal section surgery. Results : No differences were observed in precentral activations in patients relative to normal controls (n = 12), and surgery did not alter the phonological-associated activations. The two mTLE patient groups showed left inferior prefrontal activations associated with semantic processing (word-generation > pseudo-word reading), as did control subjects. The amount of semantic-associated activation in the left inferior prefrontal region was negatively correlated with epilepsy duration in both patient groups. Following temporal resection, semantic-specific activations in inferior prefrontal region became more bilateral in left mTLE patients, but more left-lateralized in right mTLE patients, The longer the duration of epilepsy in the patients, the larger the increase in the left inferior prefrontal semantic-associated activation after surgery in both patient groups. Semantic activation of the intact hippocampus, which had been negatively correlated with seizure frequency, normalized after the epileptic side was removed. Conclusion : These results indicate alternation of semantic language network related to recruitment of left inferior prefrontal cortex and functional recovery of the hippocampus contralateral to the epileptogenic side, suggesting an intra- and inter-hemispheric reorganization following surgery.
- ISSN
- 2005-3711
- Language
- English
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