ABSTRACT
Carpentieri and Mulhern report memory disorders in children surviving temporal lobe tumours. The younger the age at diagnosis, the more severe the verbal long-term memory deficits. Children receiving radiation therapy were at greatest risk for both visual and auditory verbal memory deficits, relative to their intellectual levels. Amnesia, in adult neurological patients, is characterised by memory impairment for events prior to injury or disease, retrograde amnesia, and also memory impairment in the acquisition of new knowledge, anterograde amnesia. Patients with left temporal lobectomies also displayed neglect of detail in organised pictorial stimuli suggesting impairment of executive organisational components and memory. Developmental memory impairments in children have been subject to few detailed case analyses. Epilepsy is often associated with memory disorders. About one-third of all patients with epilepsy, suffer from Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE) and pathology or abnormality in the temporal lobes and underlying hippocampus may produce both the epilepsy and memory impairment.
