A Review of Accelerated Long-Term Forgetting in Epilepsy
Accelerated long-term forgetting (ALF) is a memory disorder that manifests by a distinct pattern of normal memory for up to an hour after learning, but an increased rate of forgetting during the subsequent hours and days. The topic of ALF has gained much attention in group studies with epilepsy pati...
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| author | Rūta Mameniškienė Kristijonas Puteikis Arminas Jasionis Dalius Jatužis |
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| description | Accelerated long-term forgetting (ALF) is a memory disorder that manifests by a distinct pattern of normal memory for up to an hour after learning, but an increased rate of forgetting during the subsequent hours and days. The topic of ALF has gained much attention in group studies with epilepsy patients and the phenomenon has been shown to have contradictory associations with seizures, epileptiform activity, imaging data, sleep, and antiepileptic medication. The aim of this review was to explore how clinical and imaging data could help determine the topographic and physiological substrate of ALF, and what is the possible use of this information in the clinical setting. We have reviewed 51 group studies in English to provide a synthesis of the existing findings concerning ALF in epilepsy. Analysis of recently reported data among patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, transient epileptic amnesia, and generalized and extratemporal epilepsies provided further indication that ALF is likely a disorder of late memory consolidation. The spatial substrate of ALF might be located along the parts of the hippocampal–neocortical network and novel studies reveal the increasingly possible importance of damage in extrahippocampal sites. Further research is needed to explore the mechanisms of cellular impairment in ALF and to develop effective methods of care for patients with the disorder. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-92f84ba021024ad8ba9c552e63e72f0e2023-11-20T23:44:14ZengMDPI AGBrain Sciences2076-34252020-12-01101294510.3390/brainsci10120945A Review of Accelerated Long-Term Forgetting in EpilepsyRūta Mameniškienė0Kristijonas Puteikis1Arminas Jasionis2Dalius Jatužis3Center for Neurology, Vilnius University, LT-08661 Vilnius, LithuaniaFaculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, LT-03101 Vilnius, LithuaniaCenter for Neurology, Vilnius University, LT-08661 Vilnius, LithuaniaCenter for Neurology, Vilnius University, LT-08661 Vilnius, LithuaniaAccelerated long-term forgetting (ALF) is a memory disorder that manifests by a distinct pattern of normal memory for up to an hour after learning, but an increased rate of forgetting during the subsequent hours and days. The topic of ALF has gained much attention in group studies with epilepsy patients and the phenomenon has been shown to have contradictory associations with seizures, epileptiform activity, imaging data, sleep, and antiepileptic medication. The aim of this review was to explore how clinical and imaging data could help determine the topographic and physiological substrate of ALF, and what is the possible use of this information in the clinical setting. We have reviewed 51 group studies in English to provide a synthesis of the existing findings concerning ALF in epilepsy. Analysis of recently reported data among patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, transient epileptic amnesia, and generalized and extratemporal epilepsies provided further indication that ALF is likely a disorder of late memory consolidation. The spatial substrate of ALF might be located along the parts of the hippocampal–neocortical network and novel studies reveal the increasingly possible importance of damage in extrahippocampal sites. Further research is needed to explore the mechanisms of cellular impairment in ALF and to develop effective methods of care for patients with the disorder.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/10/12/945accelerated long-term forgettingepilepsymemory impairmenttransient epileptic amnesiatemporal lobe epilepsy |
| spellingShingle | Rūta Mameniškienė Kristijonas Puteikis Arminas Jasionis Dalius Jatužis A Review of Accelerated Long-Term Forgetting in Epilepsy Brain Sciences accelerated long-term forgetting epilepsy memory impairment transient epileptic amnesia temporal lobe epilepsy |
| title | A Review of Accelerated Long-Term Forgetting in Epilepsy |
| title_full | A Review of Accelerated Long-Term Forgetting in Epilepsy |
| title_fullStr | A Review of Accelerated Long-Term Forgetting in Epilepsy |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Review of Accelerated Long-Term Forgetting in Epilepsy |
| title_short | A Review of Accelerated Long-Term Forgetting in Epilepsy |
| title_sort | review of accelerated long term forgetting in epilepsy |
| topic | accelerated long-term forgetting epilepsy memory impairment transient epileptic amnesia temporal lobe epilepsy |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/10/12/945 |
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