Autobiographical memory after temporal lobe resection: Neuropsychological and MRI volumetric findings

Brain

Volumn 130, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3184-3199

  Noulhiane, M ^a,b,c   Piolino, P ^c,d   Hasboun, D ^a   Clemenceau, S ^a   Baulac, M ^a   Samson, S ^a,b  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Autonoetic consciousness; MRI volumetric analysis; Temporal lobe epilepsy surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEIZURE; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL METHOD; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADULT; CONSCIOUSNESS; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SELF CONCEPT; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 36749063868     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awm258     Document Type: Article

References (98)

1. Addis DR, Moscovitch M, Crawley AP, McAndrews MP. Recollective qualities modulate hippocampal activation during autobiographical memory retrieval. Hippocampus 2004; 14: 752-62.
2. Baddeley AD, Wilson B. Amnesia, autobiographical memory and confabulation. In: Rubin DC, editor. Autobiographical memory. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press; 1986. p. 225-52.
3. Barr WB, Goldberg E, Wasserstein J, Novelly RA. Retrograde amnesia following unilateral temporal lobectomy. Neuropsychologia 1990; 28: 243-55.
4. Bayley PJ, Gold JJ, Hopkins RO, Squire LR. The neuroanatomy of remote memory. Neuron 2005; 46: 799-810.
5. Berenbaum SA, Baxter L, Seidenberg M, Hermann B. Role of the hippocampus in sex differences in verbal memory: memory outcome following left anterior temporal lobectomy. Neuropsychology 1997; 11: 585-91.
6. Bergin PS, Thompson PJ, Baxendale SA, Fish DR, Shorvon SD. Remote memory in epilepsy. Epilepsia 2000; 41: 231-9.
7. Berntsen D, Rubin DC. Emotionally charged autobiographical memories across the life span: the recall of happy, sad, traumatic, and involuntary memories. Psychol Aging 2002; 17: 636-52.
8. Bohbot VD, Kalina M, Stepankova K, Spackova N, Petrides M, Nadel L. Spatial memory deficits in patients with lesions to the right hippocampus and to the right parahippocampal cortex. Neuropsychologia 1998; 36: 1217-38.
9. Borrini G, Dall'Ora P, Della Sala S, Marinelli L, Spinnler H. Autobiographical memory. Sensitivity to age and education of a standardized enquiry. Psychol Med 1989; 19: 215-24.
10. Brown MW, Aggleton JP. Recognition memory: what are the roles of the perirhinal cortex and hippocampus? Nat Rev Neurosci 2001; 2: 51-61.
11. Burgess N, Maguire EA, O'Keefe J. The human hippocampus and spatial and episodic memory. Neuron 2002; 35: 625-41.
12. Cavazos JE, Das I, Sutula TP. Neuronal loss induced in limbic pathways by kindling: evidence for induction of hippocampal sclerosis by repeated brief seizures. J Neurosci 1994; 14: 3106-21.
13. Cipolotti L, Shallice T, Chan D, Fox N, Scahill R, Harrison G, et al. Long-term retrograde amnesia . . . the crucial role of the hippocampus. Neuropsychologia 2001; 39: 151-72.
14. Cointepas Y, Mangin JF, Garnero L, Poline JB, Benali H. BrainVISA: software platform for visualization and analysis of multimodality brain data. Seventh Human Brain Mapping. NeuroImage 2001; 13: S98.
15. Conway MA. Sensory-perceptual episodic memory and its context: autobiographical memory. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2001; 356: 1375-84.
16. Conway MA, Holmes A. Psychosocial stages and the accessibility of autobiographical memories across the life cycle. J Pers 2004; 72: 461-80.
17. Conway MA, Pleydell-Pearce CW. The construction of autobiographical memories in the self-memory system. Psychol Rev 2000; 107: 261-88.
18. Conway MA, Rubin DC. The structure of autobiographical memory. In: Collins AE, Gathercole SE, Conway MA, Morris PEM, editors. Theories of memory. Hove, UK: Erlbaum; 1993. p. 103-37.
19. Corkin S. Lasting consequences of bilateral medial lobectomy: clinical course and experimental findings in H.M. Seminars in Neurology 1984; 41: 249-59.
20. Corkin S. What's new with the amnesic patient H.M.? Nat Rev Neurosci 2002; 3: 153-60.
21. Crovitz H, Schiffman H. Frequency of episodic memories as a function of their age. Bull Psychol Soc 1974; 4: 517-8.
22. Deloche G, Hannequin D. Test de Dénomination orale d'images (DO 80). Paris: Centre de Psychologie Appliquée; 1997.
23. Dritschel BH, Williams JM, Baddeley AD, Nimmo-Smith I. Autobiographical fluency: a method for the study of personal memory. Mem Cognit 1992; 20: 133-40.
24. Duvernoy HM. The human brain: surface, three-dimensional sectional anatomy and MRI. Wien: Springer; 1988.
25. Eldridge LL, Knowlton BJ, Furmanski CS, Bookheimer SY, Engel SA. Remembering episodes: a selective role for the hippocampus during retrieval. Nat Neurosci 2000; 3: 1149-52.
26. Engel J, Van Ness PC, Rasmussen TB, et al. Outcome with respect to epileptic seizures. In: Engel J, editor. Surgical treatment of the epilepsies. 2nd edn., New York: Raven Press; 1993. p. 609-21.
27. Fink GR, Markowitsch HJ, Reinkemeier M, Bruckbauer T, Kessler J, Heiss WD. Cerebral representation of one's own past: neural networks involved in autobiographical memory. J Neurosci 1996; 16: 4275-82.
28. Fitzgerald J. Intersecting meanings of reminiscence in adult development and aging. In: Rubin DC, editor. Remembering our past: studies in autobiographical memory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1996. p. 360-83.
29. Fortin NJ, Agster KL, Eichenbaum HB. Critical role of the hippocampus in memory for sequences of events. Nat Neurosci 2002; 5: 458-62.
30. Fujii T, Yamadori A, Endo K, Suzuki K, Fukatsu R. Disproportionate retrograde amnesia in a patient with herpes simplex encephalitis. Cortex 1999; 35: 599-614.
31. Ganis G, Thompson WL, Kosslyn SM. Brain areas underlying visual mental imagery and visual perception: an fMRI study. Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 2004; 20: 226-41.
32. Gardiner JM. Functional aspects of recollective experience. Mem Cognit 1988; 16: 309-13.
33. Gardiner JM. Episodic memory and autonoetic consciousness: a first-person approach. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2001; 356: 1351-61.
34. Gilboa A, Ramirez J, Kohler S, Westmacott R, Black SE, Moscovitch M. Retrieval of autobiographical memory in Alzheimer's disease: relation to volumes of medial temporal lobe and other structures. Hippocampus 2005; 15: 535-50.
35. Gilboa A, Winocur G, Grady CL, Hevenor SJ, Moscovitch M. Remembering our past: functional neuroanatomy of recollection of recent and very remote personal events. Cereb Cortex 2004; 14: 1214-25.
36. Graham K, Hodges J. Differentiating the role of the hippocampus complex and neocortex in long-term memory storage: evidence from the study of semantic dementia and Alzheimer disease. Neuropsychology 1997; 3: 13-36.
37. Graham KS, Lee AC, Brett M, Patterson K. The neural basis of autobiographical and semantic memory: new evidence from three PET studies. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 2003; 3: 234-54.
38. Greenberg DL, Rice HJ, Cooper JJ, Cabeza R, Rubin DC, Labar KS. Co-activation of the amygdala, hippocampus and inferior frontal gyrus during autobiographical memory retrieval. Neuropsychologia 2005; 43: 659-74.
39. Grunewald RA, Farrow T, Vaughan P, Rittey CD, Mundy J. A magnetic resonance study of complicated early childhood convulsion. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2001; 71: 638-42.
40. Helmstaedter C, Elger CE. Cognitive consequences of two-thirds anterior temporal lobectomy on verbal memory in 144 patients: a three-month follow-up study. Epilepsia 1996; 37: 171-80.
41. Hermann BP, Wyler AR, Bush AJ, Tabatabai FR. Differential effects of left and right anterior temporal lobectomy on verbal learning and memory performance. Epilepsia 1992; 33: 289-97.
42. Insausti R, Juottonen K, Soininen H, Insausti AM, Partanen K, Vainio P, Laakso MP, Pitkänen A. MR volumetric analysis of the human entorhinal, perirhinal, and temporopolar cortices. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 1998; 19: 659-71.
43. Kapur N, Prevett M. Unexpected amnesia: are there lessons to be learned from cases of amnesia following unilateral temporal lobe surgery? Brain 2003; 126: 2573-85.
44. Kopelman MD, Lasserson D, Kingsley DR, Bello F, Rush C, Stanhope N, et al. Retrograde amnesia and the volume of critical brain structures. Hippocampus 2003; 13: 879-91.
45. Kopelman MD, Wilson BA, Baddeley AD. The autobiographical memory interview: a new assessment of autobiographical and personal semantic memory in amnesic patients. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 1989; 11: 724-44.
46. Lah S, Grayson S, Lee T, Miller L. Memory for the past after temporal lobectomy: impact of epilepsy and cognitive variables. Neuropsychologia 2004; 42: 1666-79.
47. Lah S, Lee T, Grayson S, Miller L. Effects of temporal lobe epilepsy on retrograde memory. Epilepsia 2006; 47: 615-25.
48. Levine B, Svoboda E, Hay JF, Winocur G, Moscovitch M. Aging and autobiographical memory: dissociating episodic from semantic retrieval. Psychol Aging 2002; 17: 677-89.
49. Mantyla T. Knowing but not remembering: adult age differences in recollective experience. Mem Cognit 1993; 21: 379-88.
50. Markowitsch HJ. Which brain regions are critically involved in the retrieval of old episodic memory? Brain Res Brain Res Rev 1995; 21: 117-27.
51. Mayes AR, Mackay CE, Montaldi D, Downest JJ, Singh KD, Norberst N. Does retrieving decades-old spatial memories activate the medial temporal lobes less than retrieving recently acquired spatial memories? NeuroImage 2000; 11: S421.
52. McClelland JL, McNaughton BL, O'Reilly RC. Why there are complementary learning systems in the hippocampus and neocortex: insights from the successes and failures of connectionist models of learning and memory. Psychol Rev 1995; 102: 419-57.
53. McGuire AM, Duncan JS, Trimble MR. Effects of vigabatrin on cognitive function and mood when used as add-on therapy in patients with intractable epilepsy. Epilepsia 1992; 33: 128-34.
54. Milner B. Psychological aspects of focal epilepsy and its neurosurgical management. Adv Neurol 1975; 8: 299-321.
55. Milner B, Corkin S, Teuber HL. Further analysis of the hippocampal amnesic syndrome: 14-year follow-up of H.M. Neuropsychologia 1968; 6: 215-34.
56. Moscovitch M, Nadel L. Multiple-trace theory and semantic dementia: response to K.S. Graham (1999). Trends Cogn Sci 1999; 3: 87-9.
57. Moscovitch M, Rosenbaum RS, Gilboa A, Addis DR, Westmacott R, Grady C, et al. Functional neuroanatomy of remote episodic, semantic and spatial memory: a unified account based on multiple trace theory. J Anat 2005; 207: 35-66.
58. Murre JM. TraceLink: a model of amnesia and consolidation of memory. Hippocampus 1996; 6: 675-84.
59. Nadel L, Hardt O. The spatial brain. Neuropsychology 2004; 18: 473-6.
60. Nadel L, Moscovitch M. Memory consolidation, retrograde amnesia and the hippocampal complex. Curr Opin Neurobiol 1997; 7: 217-27.
61. Nadel L, Moscovitch M. The hippocampal complex and long-term memory revisited. Trends Cogn Sci 2001; 5: 228-30.
62. Noulhiane M, Pouthas V, Hasboun D, Baulac M, Samson S. Role of the medial temporal lobe in time estimation in the range of minutes. Neuroreport 2007; 18: 1035-8.
63. Noulhiane M, Samson S, Clemenceau S, Dormont D, Baulac M, Hasboun D. A volumetric MRI study of the hippocampus and the parahippocampal region after unilateral medial temporal lobe resection. J Neurosci Methods 2006; 156: 293-304.
64. Nyberg L. Any novelty in hippocampal formation and memory? Curr Opin Neurol 2005; 18: 424-8.
65. O'Craven KM, Kanwisher N. Mental imagery of faces and places activates corresponding stiimulus-specific brain regions. J Cogn Neurosci 2000; 12: 1013-23.
66. Onitsuka T, Shenton ME, Salisburry DF, Dickey CC, Toner SK, Frumin M, et al. Middle and inferior temporal gyrus gray matter volume abnormalities in chronic schizophrenia: an MRI study. Am J Psychiatry 2004; 161: 1603-11.
67. Piefke M, Weiss PH, Zilles K, Markowitsch HJ, Fink GR. Differential remoteness and emotional tone modulate the neural correlates of autobiographical memory. Brain 2003; 126: 650-68.
68. Piolino P, Desgranges B, Belliard S, Matuszewski V, Lalevee C, De la Sayette V, et al. Autobiographical memory and autonoetic consciousness: triple dissociation in neurodegenerative diseases. Brain 2003; 126: 2203-19.
69. Piolino P, Desgranges B, Benali K, Eustache F. Episodic and semantic remote autobiographical memory in ageing. Memory 2002; 10: 239-57.
70. Piolino P, Desgranges B, Clarys D, Guillery-Girard B, Taconnat L, Isingrini M, et al. Autobiographical memory, autonoetic consciousness, and self-perspective in aging. Psychol Aging 2006; 21: 510-25.
71. Piolino P, Desgranges B, Manning L, North P, Jokic C, Eustache F. Autobiographical memory, the sense of recollection and executive functions after severe traumatic brain injury. Cortex 2007; 43: 176-95.
72. Piolino P, Giffard-Quillon G, Desgranges B, Chetelat G, Baron JC, Eustache F. Re-experiencing old memories via hippocampus: a PET study of autobiographical memory. Neuroimage 2004; 22: 1371-83.
73. Reed JM, Squire LR. Retrograde amnesia for facts and events: findings from four new cases. J Neurosci 1998; 18: 3943-54.
74. Rempel-Clower NL, Zola SM, Squire LR, Amaral DG. Three cases of enduring memory impairment after bilateral damage limited to the hippocampal formation. J Neurosci 1996; 16: 5233-55.
75. Rey A. L'examen clinique en Psychologie. Paris; 1964.
76. Richards W. Time reproductions by H.M. Acta Psychol 1973; 37: 279-82.
77. Rosenbaum RS, Winocur G, Moscovitch M. New views on old memories: re-evaluating the role of the hippocampal complex. Behav Brain Res 2001; 127: 183-97.
78. Rubin DC, Schulkind MD. The distribution of autobiographical memories across the lifespan. Mem Cognit 1997; 25: 859-66.
79. Rubin DC, Wetzler SE. Autobiographical memory across life span. In: Rubin DC, editor. Autobiographical memory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1986. p. 202-21.
80. Ryan L, Nadel L, Keil K, Putnam K, Schnyer D, Trouard T, et al. Hippocampal complex and retrieval of recent and very remote autobiographical memories: evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging in neurologically intact people. Hippocampus 2001; 11: 707-14.
81. Saykin AJ, Gur RC, Sussman NM, O'Connor MJ, Gur RE. Memory deficits before and after temporal lobectomy: effect of laterality and age of onset. Brain Cogn 1989; 9: 191-200.
82. Schmidtke K, Vollmer H. Retrograde amnesia: a study of its relation to anterograde amnesia and semantic memory deficits. Neuropsychologia 1997; 35: 505-18.
83. Scoville WB, Milner B. Loss of recent memory after bilateral hippocampal lesions. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1957; 20: 11-21.
84. Smith ML, Milner B. The role of the right hippocampus in the recall of spatial location. Neuropsychologia 1981; 19: 781-93.
85. Squire LR, Alvarez P. Retrograde amnesia and memory consolidation: a neurobiological perspective. Curr Opin Neurobiol 1995; 5: 169-77.
86. Steinvorth S, Corkin S, Halgren E. Ecphory of autobiographical memories: an fMRI study of recent and remote memory retrieval. Neuroimage 2006; 30: 285-98.
87. Steinvorth S, Levine B, Corkin S. Medial temporal lobe structures are needed to re-experience remote autobiographical memories: evidence from H.M. and W.R. Neuropsychologia 2005; 43: 479-96.
88. Thompson PJ, Baxendale SA, Duncan JS, Sander JW. Effects of topiramate on cognitive function. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2000; 69: 636-41.
89. Tulving E. How many memory systems are there ? Am Psychol 1985; 40: 385-98.
90. Tulving E. Episodic memory and common sense: how far apart? Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2001; 356: 1505-15.
91. Tulving E. Episodic memory: from mind to brain. Annu Rev Psychol 2002; 53: 1-25.
92. Tulving E, Schacter DL, McLachlan DR, Moscovitch M. Priming of semantic autobiographical knowledge: a case study of retrograde amnesia. Brain Cogn 1988; 8: 3-20.
93. Viard A, Piolino P, Desgranges B, Chetelat G, Lebreton K, Landeau B, et al. Hippocampal activation for autobiographical memories over the entire lifetime in healthy aged subjects: an fMRI study. Cereb Cortex 2007; 17: 2453-67.
94. Viskontas IV, McAndrews MP, Moscovitch M. Remote episodic memory deficits in patients with unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy and excisions. J Neurosci 2000; 20: 5853-7.
95. Voltzenlogel V, Despres O, Vignal JP, Steinhoff BJ, Kehrli P, et al. Remote memory in temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsia 2006; 47: 1329-36.
96. Wada J, Rasmussen T. Intracarotid injection of sodium amytal for the lateralization of cerebral speech dominance: experimental and clinical observations. J Neurosurg 1960; 17: 266-82.
97. Wheeler ME, Buckner RL. Functional-anatomic correlates of remembering and knowing. Neuroimage 2004; 21: 1337-49.
98. Williams JM, Medwedeff CH, Haban G. Memory disorder and subjective time estimation. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 1989; 11: 713-23.