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SUBMITTER: Riley JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3090499 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Riley Jeffrey D JD Moore Stephanie S Cramer Steven C SC Lin Jack J JJ
Epilepsy & behavior : E&B 20110419 1
This study tested the hypothesis that executive dysfunction, common in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), is associated with an abnormal frontostriatal network. Structural and diffusion tensor MR scans, the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) targeting cognitive flexibility, and the Trail Making Test B examining parallel sequencing were obtained from 9 patients with left TLE and 17 healthy controls. The five major findings were: (1) Caudate volume is reduced on the left side in TLE. (2) The atrophy in ...[more]