title: Impairment of inferior longitudinal fasciculus plays a role in visual memory disturbance.
abstract: Function of the inferior longitudinal fasciculus (ILF), which connects the anterior temporal and occipital lobes, has not been clearly demonstrated in the human brain. A 47-year-old woman with visual memory disturbance as demonstrated by the Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised presented with possible brain tumor in the right temporal lobe. Diffusion tensor imaging showed partial disconnection of the right ILF, indicating that function of the ILF is highly involved in visual memory.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Komagome Metropolitan Hospital, Hon-Komagome, Tokyo, Japan. shinoura@cick.jp
authors.forename: Nobusada
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Shinoura
authors.forename: Yuichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Masanobu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tsukada
authors.forename: Shizuka
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Katsuki
authors.forename: Ryozi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Yusuke
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tabei
authors.forename: Kuniaki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: Kazuo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yagi
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000473:pathology; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000473:pathology*; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000473:pathology*; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology; D014888:Wechsler Scales