Resilience in Bereaved Caregivers of Persons With Dementia.

The purpose of the current study was to identify characteristics of resilience using surveys in 50 bereaved caregivers for persons with dementia who lost their care recipient in the past 6 months. Surveys were reviewed and sorted as demonstrating a resilient grieving process or a problematic grieving process. Resilience was defined as the ability to adapt in a positive direction, with adequate support resources in place despite destabilizing experiences.

Abnormalities of lexical and semantic processing in left temporal lobe epilepsy: an fMRI study.

Purpose: We examined the efficiency of lexical and semantic processing and associated brain activation using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in patients with left temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE).

Methods: Twenty patients with left TLE (10 with hippocampal sclerosis, the HS group; and 10 with nonlesional MR scans, the NL group) and 12 healthy controls underwent an event-related fMRI analysis during a lexical decision task (LDT). Lexical and semantic processing were examined by comparing behavioral and imaging data associated with words and nonwords (lexicality) or with concrete and abstract words (concreteness).

Cortical reorganization and reduced efficiency of visual word recognition in right temporal lobe epilepsy: a functional MRI study.

Purpose: We investigated the efficiency of lexical and semantic processing in participants with right temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). We also mapped brain activation patterns during this processing using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Methods: Ten participants with right TLE and 12 healthy controls were studied.