[Mnestic disorders in tumors of the temporal lobe].
The paper contains some results of a neuropsychological study of memory in 32 patients with tumors of the temporal lobe. The authors distinguished syndromes of disturbed speech memory (mainly--auditory-verbal) in tumors of the medial, posterior and, to a less degree, frontal areas of the left temporal lobe. In tumors of the right temporal lobe changes of memory were less expressed and had prevalently a visual-image character. An involvement into the process of the hyppocampus leads to a model nonspecific drop of short-time memory, while the expansion of the tumor towards the diencephalo-mesencephalic structures--to a formation of the Korsakoff syndrome. The results of the study demonstrate a certain correlation of disturbed memory with degree of emotional changes. It is being assumed that the defect of a retarded reproduction is due to an inertia of the nervous processes.
D000328:Adult; D001307:Auditory Perception; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D003690:Deja Vu / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D008875:Middle Aged; D011599:Psychopathology; D013060:Speech; D013577:Syndrome; D013702:Temporal Lobe
Mnesticheskie narusheniia pri opukholiakh visochnoĭ doli