Verbal memory compensation: Application to left and right temporal lobe epileptic patients

Process-specific prefrontal contributions to episodic encoding and retrieval of tastes: A functional NIRS study

“…Our results for taste memory have provided partial support for the reformulated HERA model: higher activation was found in Ret than Enc in the right lateralized LPFC regions while no lateralization was found in the Enc-Ret contrast. HERA has been tested not only using neuroimaging, but also using modalities such as TMS, EEG, and patient studies, with some providing results supportive of the HERA model (Babiloni et al, 2006;Bresson et al, 2007;Rossi et al, 2001). The evidence provided by those studies together with our current finding suggests that HERA is a useful model for the understanding of the memory system, despite some inconsistencies.…”

Age-Related Differences According to the Associative Deficit and the Environmental Support Hypotheses: An Application of the Formal Charm Associative Memory Model

“…Although the modeling of different anatomical regions (e.g., Gluck & Myers, 1993;Murre, Meeter, & Chessa, 2007) was not included in our simulations, the greater effect of semantic support in the elderly simulated data when a high elaboration (by an increased vector size of memorized item) is simulated suggests that age-related differences in the relationship between the LOP and elaboration processes may mirror the possibility of greater PCF recruitment for mediating elaborated semantic processes (Thompson-Schill, 2003;Wagner et al, 2001) in order to compensate the aging decline in the associative binding function (presumably the medial temporal areas), with the result of better memory performance in elderly adults (e.g., Grady, Springer, Hongwanishkul, McIntosh, & Winocur, 2006;Spreng et al, 2010). Thus, the CHARM formalizations of the age-related decline regarding the binding function, as well as the LOP and elaboration processes, are consistent with the idea that encoding conditions promoting the recruitment of the PCF region provide a compensatory environmental response to reductions in the medial temporal regions (Lespinet-Najib et al, 2004;Bresson, Lespinet-Najib, Rougier, Claverie, & N'Kaoua, 2007).…”

Cognitive rehabilitation in epilepsy: An evidence-based review

“…Other studies revealed that patients submitted to left temporal lobectomy were partially able to compensate their verbal memory deficits using visual imagery (Jones, 1974) or to take advantage from the use of semantic strategies for verbal learning (Bresson et al, 2007). Patients with left TLE also reported subjective memory improvement after a holistic rehabilitation program (Koorenhof et al, 2012).…”

“…Eighteen papers were classified into two reviews (Engelberts et al, 2002a;Shulman and Barr, 2002), four papers dealing with the principles of CR in epilepsy or the measurements of its efficacy (Arnedo et al, 2006;Marks et al, 2003;Ponds and Hendriks, 2006;Ridsdale, 2009), a methodological paper evaluating the inter-rater agreement of neurologists and psychiatrists assessing responses to motor rehabilitation and CR in children with epilepsy (Beghi et al, 2011), a case report (Gupta and Naorem, 2003), a paper describing three clinical cases and the general principles and methods of CR in epilepsy (Adelnkamp and Vermeulen, 1991), and nine experimental papers (Bresson et al, 2007;Engelberts et al, 2002b;Helmstaedter et al, 2007;Johanson et al, 2001;Jones, 1974;Hendriks, 2001;Koorenhof et al, 2012;Pfafflin and May, 2001;Schefft et al, 2008). Table 1 summarizes the designs, treatments, endpoints, results, and levels of evidence of the multiple case report and experimental studies.…”

“…Patients with uncontrolled seizures benefitted from CR more than seizure free patients. Bresson et al (2007) evaluated the usefulness of different internal memory aids in patients with TLE and memory disturbances candidates to surgery. The effect of memory aids was different in two patient subgroups.…”