Language assessment in temporal lobe epilepsy: correlations with structural and functional neuroimage.

• Grant number: 12/05364-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: August 01, 2012
• End date: January 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Medicine
• Principal Investigator: Fernando Cendes
• Grantee: Tátila Martins Lopes
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Médicas (FCM). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) have hippocampal sclerosis with consequent deficit in episodic memory and also difficulties related to language, especially the naming and atypical lateralization for language suggesting the involvement of the mesial temporal lobe in this cognitive function. However, the mechanisms associated with this deficit are poorly known, because the mesial temporal region is anatomically distant from the areas responsible for language. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the language, in addition to episodic memory and executive function in patients with MTLE, correlating these data with structural and functional neuroimaging. In order to we will include 20 subjects in each group: with unilateral hippocampal atrophy (right or left) and bilateral, without hippocampal atrophy; refractory to drug treatment, with good response to drug treatment and control subjects. All will undergo cognitive assessment, through the Edinburgh handedness test, Boston naming test, test and categorical phonemic verbal fluency, verbal and visual pairs associated with the Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised, Rey auditory verbal learning test, trail making-A and B and the Stroop test and also will undergo magnetic resonance imaging for structural and functional. Data will be analyzed using statistical software SYSTAT 9 and statistical parametric mapping (SPM 8) depending on the type of variable for comparisons of cognitive performance and neuroimaging between groups, and correlations between cognitive and neuroimaging using appropriate statistical tests for each analysis.

Scientific publications

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LOPES, TATILA MARTINS; DE CAMPOS, BRUNNO MACHADO; ZANAO, TAMIRES ARAUJO; BALTHAZAR, MARCIO L. F.; YASUDA, CLARISSA LIN; CENDES, FERNANDO. Hippocampal atrophy disrupts the language network but not hemispheric language lateralization. Epilepsia, v. 60, n. 4, p. 744-755, APR 2019. (13/07559-3, 12/05364-8)

ALVIM, MARINA K. M.; MORITA, MARCIA E.; YASUDA, CLARISSA L.; DAMASCENO, BENITO P.; LOPES, TATILA M.; COAN, ANA CAROLINA; GHIZONI, ENRICO; TEDESCHI, HELDER; CENDES, FERNANDO. Is inpatient ictal video-electroencephalographic monitoring mandatory in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with unilateral hippocampal sclerosis? A prospective study. Epilepsia, v. 59, n. 2, p. 410-419, FEB 2018. (12/05364-8, 15/17066-0)

LOPES, TATILA MARTINS; YASUDA, CLARISSA LIN; DE CAMPOS, BRUNNO MACHADO; BALTHAZAR, MARCIO L. F.; BINDER, JEFFREY R.; CENDES, FERNANDO. Effects of task complexity on activation of language areas in a semantic decision fMRI protocol. Neuropsychologia, v. 81, p. 140-148, JAN 29 2016. (12/05364-8, 13/07559-3)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

LOPES, Tátila Martins. Language assessment in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: correlations with structural and functional neuroimaging. 2017. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Ciências Médicas Campinas, SP.