PubMed · 4837221
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S Nyström, B P Silfverskiöld. 1974-01-23. [Letter: Brain damage evaluation].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4837221/
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Hemispheric (re-)organization of episodic memory functions after temporal lobe damage (TLD) was investigated by the intracarotid amobarbital procedure in patients suffering temporal lobe epilepsy. Memory of the speech-dominant left hemisphere was intact after right-sided TLD independent of the age at manifestation. In contrast, the right hemisphere mediated memory well only after early left-sided TLD. These findings suggest a predisposition of the speech-dominant left hemisphere for the encoding of episodic memory, and indicate that for left-sided TLD the right hemisphere may compensate memory encoding sufficiently only if the damage occurred within a critical period in childhood.
We describe a patient with a right hemisphere lesion involving the frontal lobe, the post-central gyrus and the superior parietal lobule. Behavioural testing demonstrated severe left unilateral neglect to low luminance contrast stimuli, but not to high colour contrast stimuli. Evoked potentials to low contrast luminance gratings presented in the left hemifield were not reliable. However, equiluminant coloured gratings presented in the same hemifield evoked reliable electrophysiological responses, although longer in latency than those evoked in the right hemifield. These findings suggest that the patient has severe damage of the high contrast sensitivity magnocellular pathway in the right hemisphere, with minor involvement of the parvocellular pathway.