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Table 2 fMRI memory studies for adults with epilepsy

From: Imaging episodic memory during development and childhood epilepsy

Author/year

Population

fMRI paradigm: verbal or visual

Recognition or Recall tested during scan or post scan

Detre et al. 1998 [53]

10 TLE, 8 TD

Visual: scenes

Post scan

Killgore et al. 1999 [54]

9 patients who underwent ATL

Visual: scenes

Post scan

Dupont et al. 2000 [55]

7 left MTLE (MTS), 10 TD

Verbal: supra-span list of abstract words

During scan (silently recall) and post scan

Jokeit et al. 2001 [56]

30 TLE, 17 TD

Visual: Roland’s Hometown Walking task

During scan

Golby et al. 2002 [41]

9 MTLE

Both: 4 tasks: patterns, faces, scenes, words

Post scan

Richardson et al. 2003 [57]

24 LMTS, 12 TD

Single words

Post scan

Rabin et al. 2004 [58]

35 TLE, 30 TD

Visual: scenes

Post scan

Janszky et al. 2005 [17]

16 MTLE

Visual: Roland’s Hometown Walking task

During scan

Richardson et al. 2006 [59]

30 MTLE (MTS), 13 TD

Single words (same as Richardson et al. 2003 [57])

Post scan

Avila et al. 2006 [60]

25 with lesions in the temporal lobe, 12 TD

Visual: 2 tasks: (1) picture encoding and (2) Roland’s Hometown Walking task

(1) Picture encoding = post scan, (2) Roland’s Hometown Walking task = during scan

Powell et al. 2007 [62]

15 TLE

Both: 1 task with pictures, faces, words

Post scan

Frings et al. 2008a [61]

22 MTLE

Visual: spatial memory task (3D virtual environment)

During scan (recognition task)

Binder et al. 2010 [63]

30 patients who underwent LATL, 37 RATL

Visual: scenes

Post scan

Dupont et al. 2010 [64]

25 MTLE

Visual: pictures of objects (learned outside of scanner and fMRI 24 h later)

During scan (recognition task)

Bonelli et al. 2010 [14]

72 TLE, 20 TD

Both: 1 task with pictures, faces, words (same as Powell et al. 2007 [62])

Post scan

Alessio et al. 2013 [65]

17 MTLE, 9 TD

Both: 1 task with abstract designs and abstract words

During scan (silently recall)

Bonelli et al. 2013 [67]

46 TLE

Both: 1 task with pictures, faces, words (same as Powell et al. 2007 [62] and Bonelli et al. 2010 [14])

Post scan

Sidhu et al. 2013 [66]

44 MTLE, 26 TD

Both: 1 task with faces, words

Post scan

Sidhu et al. 2015a [68]

50 MTLE, 26 TD

Verbal: words

Post scan

  1. Summary of several published studies of memory fMRI for adults with epilepsy in chronological order, including study population, fMRI tasks, and whether recall was tested during scanning
  2. TLE temporal lobe epilepsy, MTLE mesial temporal lobe epilepsy, MTS mesial temporal sclerosis, TD typically developing
  3. aIncludes individual-level results