The effects of temporal lobe epilepsy on scene encoding.

Forty-four patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) (25 left) and 40 healthy control participants performed a complex visual scene-encoding fMRI task in a 4-T Varian scanner. Healthy controls and left temporal lobe epilepsy (LTLE) patients demonstrated symmetric activation during scene encoding. In contrast, right temporal lobe (RTLE) patients demonstrated left lateralization of scene encoding which differed significantly from healthy controls and LTLE patients (all p≤.

Measuring patient satisfaction following epilepsy surgery.

Purpose: To systematically review primary research examining patient satisfaction with epilepsy surgery in order to obtain evidence-based estimates of this surgical outcome; to assess methods used to measure epilepsy surgery satisfaction, overall epilepsy surgery satisfaction ratings, and predictors of epilepsy surgery satisfaction.

Methods: Systematic review of published studies in English up to June 2009, focusing on patient satisfaction with all types of epilepsy surgery in patients of all ages. We excluded studies that focused on satisfaction with epilepsy treatment in general, on quality of life without specific exploration of patient satisfaction with surgery, and on satisfaction with the process of health care delivery, rather than with surgery and its outcomes.