Erik Kaestner, Alena Stasenko, Adam Schadler, Rebecca Roth, Kelsey Hewitt, Anny Reyes, Deqiang Qiu, Leonardo Bonilha, Natalie Voets, Ranliang Hu, Jon Willie, Nigel Pedersen, Jerry Shih, Sharona Ben-Haim, Robert Gross, Daniel Drane, Carrie R McDonald
BACKGROUND: With expanding neurosurgical options in epilepsy, it is important to characterise each options' risk for postoperative cognitive decline. Here, we characterise how patients' preoperative white matter (WM) networks relates to postoperative memory changes following different epilepsy surgeries. METHODS: Eighty-nine patients with temporal lobe epilepsy with T1-weighted and diffusion-weighted imaging as well as preoperative and postoperative verbal memory scores (prose recall) underwent either anterior temporal lobectomy (ATL: n=38) or stereotactic laser amygdalohippocampotomy (SLAH; n=51)...
January 11, 2024: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry