Epilepsy and Memory

Epilepsy is the most common potentially serious disorder of the brain, and these patients often suffer from memory problems. There are a number of reasons for this: seizures can directly affect the brain in ways that disturb memory; epilepsy often results from trouble in brain regions closely linked to memory; the treatment of epilepsy can affect memory; epilepsy can cause psychological problems, like depression, which interfere with memory. The study of epilepsy and the study of human memoryare interwoven. Epilepsy and Memorycomprehensively reviews all aspects of the relationship between this common and potentially serious neurological disorder and memory, one of the core functions of the human mind. The authors, acknowledged experts in their fields, review the history of the subject, the clinical features of memory disorder in epilepsy, neuropsychological, neuroradiological, neuropathological and electrophysiological findings, the roles of anticonvulsant side effects and psychiatric disorder, and the scope for memory support and rehabilitation. The study of patients with epilepsy has revealed much about the workings of memory, yet there has been no recent review of this fertile field of research. This book fills this gap and is a valuable new addition to the brain sciences literature. It will be of wide interest to clinicians and basic researchers in the brain sciences.

1. Introduction, Adam Zeman, Narinder Kapur, and Marilyn Jones-Gotman
History
2. Memory before and after HM: An Impressionistic Historical Perspective, Morris Moscovitch
3. Memory Disorders and Epilepsy during the 19th Century, German E. Berrios
Overviews of memory and epilepsy
4. Interictal Memory Disturbance, Hennric Jokeit, Simone Bosshardt, Victoria Reed
5. Long-term follow-up of memory in patients with epilepsy, Elisabeth Engman and Kristina Malmgren
6. Memory in Children with Epilepsy, Mary Lou Smith and Esther Direnfeld
Ictal and interictal memory phenomena
7. Deja experiences in Epilepsy, Nathan A. Illman, Chris J.A. Moulin, Akira R. O'Connor, and Patrick Chauvel
8. The syndrome of transient epileptic amnesia, Adam Zeman, Chris Butler, John Hodges, and Narinder Kapur
9. Effects of epileptiform EEG discharges on cognitive function, Albert P. Aldenkamp
Assesesment
10. Neuropsychological assessment of memory in patients with epilepsy, Jelena Djordjevic and Marilyn Jones-Gotman
11. Memory Assessment in Intracarotid Anesthetic Procedures, Gail L. Risse
12. Epilepsy and the Study of Spatial Memory using Virtual Reality, Gail L. Risse
Remote memory and psychiatric disorders
13. Remote Memory and Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Mary Pat McAndrews
14. Electroconvulsive therapy for depression and autobiographical memory, Hedvig Soderlund, Alexandra Percy, and Brian Levine
15. Psychiatric Aspects of Memory Disorders in Epilepsy, Laura H. Goldstein and Narinder Kapur
Imaging and ERPs
16. Structural imaging and neuropathological correlates of memory in epilepsy, Mark Richardson
17. Functional Imaging of Memory in Epilepsy, Lars Frings and Kathrin Wagner
18. Electrophysiological studies of memory in epilepsy, Thomas Grunwald and Manila Vannucci
Intracranial stimulation and recording
19. Memory and Epilepsy in Nonhuman Animals, Pierre-Pascal J. Lenck-Santini and Gregory L. Holmes
20. Hippocampal Electrical Stimulation and Localisation of Long-Term Episodic Memory, Robin G. Morris, Steven G. Coleshill, Maria E Lacruz, Antonio Valentin and Gonzalo Alarcon
21. Interrelationships between epilepsy, sleep and memory, Nikolai Axmacher
22. Mapping memories in the medial temporal lobe, Indre V. Viskontas
Management and outcome
23. Anticonvulsants and memory, Joanne Taylor and Gus A Baker
24. Effects of amygdalohippocampectomy versus corticoamygdalohippocampectomy on memory and nonmemory cognitive functions, Sarah J. Banks and Marilyn Jones-Gotman
25. Memory Rehabilitation for People with Epilepsy, Pam Thompson, Loes Koorenhof, and Narinder Kapur