EXTRA-HIPPOCAMPAL TEMPORAL LESIONS WITH DISTURBANCES IN ACADEMIC KNOWLEDGE (SEMANTIC EXPLICIT MEMORY)

Authors
DUSSAUX P BRION F PLAS J JEANNEAU A BRION S
Citation
P. Dussaux et al., EXTRA-HIPPOCAMPAL TEMPORAL LESIONS WITH DISTURBANCES IN ACADEMIC KNOWLEDGE (SEMANTIC EXPLICIT MEMORY), Revue neurologique, 154(10), 1998, pp. 675-680
Citations number
41
Categorie Soggetti
Clinical Neurology
Journal title
Revue neurologique → ACNP
ISSN journal
00353787
Volume
154
Issue
10
Year of publication
1998
Pages
675 - 680
Database
ISI
SICI code
0035-3787(1998)154:10<675:ETLWDI>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
Brain imaging showed extra-hippocampal temporal lesions in two patient s with major disturbances of memory for academic knowledge including c omplete loss of professional knowledge and school learning especially regarding history, but sparing recent episodic memory in both cases an d remote episodic memory in one of them. The antero-inferior and/or la teral regions of the temporal lobe could contain critical structures r equired to evoke and maintain memory of academic knowledge.