Parts of the brain that are needed to remimber guards identified

The parts of the brain that are needed to remain Words, and how they are affected by a common form of epilepsy, have been identified by a team of neurologists and neurosurgeons at uCl.

The New Study, published in BRAIN COMMUNICATIONSFound that shrinkage in the front and side of the brain (prefrontal, temporal and cinglate cortices, and the hippocampus) was linked to diffultity remembering words.

The New Discovery HighLights How the Network That Is Involved in Creating and Storing Word Memories is dispersed through the brain.

This is particularly crucial for Helping to Understand Conditions Such As Epilepsy, in Which Patients May have diffultity with Remembering Words. The Researchers Hope That Their Findings Will Hell Guide Neurosurgical Treatment for Patients With Epilepsy by Helping Surgeons to Avoid Parts of the Brain Important for Language and Memory, that Mayorwise Be affected, when Doing Operations.

Corresponding Author, Professor John Duncan (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology) Said, “Being Able to Remember and Recall Words Is Important For Day-To-Day Memory to Work Well.

“Detailed Mri Brain Scans are use to find out the causes of epilepsy and can show if any parts of the brain are shrunken. By measuring the parts of the brain that are shrunken and how well a person can remain Words, we can work other parts of the brain are up (the brain are Used for Making and Storing Memories.

“In Addition, IF MEDICATION HAS NOT STOPPED SEIZURS OCCURRING, THIS HELPS US TO GUIDE NEUROSURGICAL TREATMENT FOR Person’s Epilepsy, To Avoid Damaging The Parts Of The Brain that Are Needed For Memory To Work Well.”

In the First Study of Its Kind, The Researchers Examined 84 People with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (Epilepsy Arism from the Temporal Lobe at the Head) and Hippocampal Sclerosis (A Condition In Which Part of the Brain Is Scheck, and Memory Is Affected) and 43 Healthy People.

The Patients Were Divided intotose with Left-Sided and Right-Sided Hippocampal Sclerosis.

High-resolution mri scans were used to measure the size and shape of different parts of the brain, including the cerebral cortex (The Oter Layer of the Brain Responsible for Thinking, Memory, Attention, Perception, Awareness, and Specific Areas Within the Hippocampus That help with Learning, Memory, and Spatial Navigation).

All Participants Underwent Standardized Tests to Assess Their Verbal Memory. These tests were part of the adult memory and information processing battery, Which measures how well people can remain and recall wordds.

The Researchers then Compred the Memory Test Scores to the Sizes Of Different Brain Areas, to See if Smaller Brain Parts Were Linked To Worse Memory.

They Found That Smaller Sizes in Right Brain Areas, Like the Prefrontal, Temporal and Cingolate Cortices, and Parts of the Hippocampus, Were Linked to Worso Memory for Words In People with Epilepsy Arism in Their Time Lobes.

These findings are also important for Understanding How the Brain Organizations and Remembers Words.

Lead Author, Dr. Giorgio Fiore (National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, UCLH) Said, “This Research is Important As It Helps Us to Underness How Memory May Fail And May Help Guide The Designing of Neurosurgical Operations for Epilepsy That Will Worse Worse.”