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Severe episodic memory impairment after strategic infarct: A case report
Brain infarcts located in strategic regions often result in cognitive impairment. Based on a case study, this paper describes unusual and specific clinical and neuropsychological features of a strategic ischemic lesion in the left medial temporal lobe (MTL) structures. Taken together with the litera...
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Associação de Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5770006/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29354228 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1980-57642016dn11-040017 |
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author | Holanda, Francisco Wilson Nogueira de Almondes, Katie Moraes Silva, Rodrigo Alencar e |
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description | Brain infarcts located in strategic regions often result in cognitive impairment. Based on a case study, this paper describes unusual and specific clinical and neuropsychological features of a strategic ischemic lesion in the left medial temporal lobe (MTL) structures. Taken together with the literature data, the case illustrates that a unilateral strategic infarct in MTL structures may result in severe impairment of episodic memory (EM), which refers to the ability to encode and retrieve personal experiences, including information about the time and place of an event and detailed description of the event itself. The preservation of other cognitive functions, the severe functional impairment, and the type of visual-verbal deficit in a left-sided lesion were identified as singular features of the case. The current case supports the critical role of the MTL structures in EM formation. |
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spelling | pubmed-57700062018-01-19 Severe episodic memory impairment after strategic infarct: A case report Holanda, Francisco Wilson Nogueira de Almondes, Katie Moraes Silva, Rodrigo Alencar e Dement Neuropsychol Case Report Brain infarcts located in strategic regions often result in cognitive impairment. Based on a case study, this paper describes unusual and specific clinical and neuropsychological features of a strategic ischemic lesion in the left medial temporal lobe (MTL) structures. Taken together with the literature data, the case illustrates that a unilateral strategic infarct in MTL structures may result in severe impairment of episodic memory (EM), which refers to the ability to encode and retrieve personal experiences, including information about the time and place of an event and detailed description of the event itself. The preservation of other cognitive functions, the severe functional impairment, and the type of visual-verbal deficit in a left-sided lesion were identified as singular features of the case. The current case supports the critical role of the MTL structures in EM formation. Associação de Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5770006/ /pubmed/29354228 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1980-57642016dn11-040017 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Holanda, Francisco Wilson Nogueira de Almondes, Katie Moraes Silva, Rodrigo Alencar e Severe episodic memory impairment after strategic infarct: A case report |
title | Severe episodic memory impairment after strategic infarct: A case report |
title_full | Severe episodic memory impairment after strategic infarct: A case report |
title_fullStr | Severe episodic memory impairment after strategic infarct: A case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Severe episodic memory impairment after strategic infarct: A case report |
title_short | Severe episodic memory impairment after strategic infarct: A case report |
title_sort | severe episodic memory impairment after strategic infarct: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5770006/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29354228 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1980-57642016dn11-040017 |
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