Relationship between presurgical memory performance on the Wechsler Memory Scale-III and memory change following temporal resection for treatment of intractable epilepsy

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 372-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Harvey ◽  
Richard I. Naugle ◽  
Joshua Magleby ◽  
Jessica S. Chapin ◽  
Imad M. Najm ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Memory Performance ◽  
Intractable Epilepsy ◽  
Wechsler Memory Scale ◽  
Memory Change ◽  
Wechsler Memory Scale Iii

WMS–III performance in epilepsy patients following temporal lobectomy

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT C. DOSS ◽  
GORDON J. CHELUNE ◽  
RICHARD I. NAUGLE
Keyword(s):  
Visual Memory ◽  
Multivariate Analyses ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Intractable Epilepsy ◽  
Temporal Lobectomy ◽  
Classification Rate ◽  
Paired Associates ◽  
Wechsler Memory Scale ◽  
Specific Memory ◽  
Visual Index

We examined performances on the Wechsler Memory Scale–3rd Edition (WMS–III) among patients who underwent temporal lobectomy for the control of medically intractable epilepsy. There were 51 right (RTL) and 56 left (LTL) temporal lobectomy patients. All patients were left hemisphere speech-dominant. The LTL and RTL patients were comparable in terms of general demographic, epilepsy, and intellectual/attention factors. Multivariate analyses revealed a significant crossover interaction (p< .001), with the RTL group scoring significantly lower on the visual than auditory indexes while the LTL group scored significantly lower on the auditory than visual memory indexes. Within-group pairwise analyses revealed statistically significant auditoryversusvisual index score comparisons (allp< .001) for both surgical groups. Discriminant analysis (p< .001) identified Verbal Paired Associates I, Faces I, and Family Pictures II to significantly discriminate RTL and LTL patients, with an overall correct classification rate of 81.3%. Our findings suggest that the WMS–III is sensitive to modality-specific memory performance associated with unilateral temporal lobectomy. (JINS, 2004,10, 173–179.)

Utilidad de la Lista de Palabras de la Wechsler Memory Scale-III para valorar la memoria episódica verbal en la evaluación forense

2013 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-81
Author(s):  
Montserrat Alegret ◽  
Ana Espinosa ◽  
Marta Ibarria ◽  
Pilar Cañabate ◽  
Mercè Boada
Keyword(s):  
Wechsler Memory Scale ◽  
Wechsler Memory Scale Iii

Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Wechsler Memory Scale-III

1999 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott R. Millis ◽  
Aaron C. Malina ◽  
Dana A. Bowers ◽  
Joseph H. Ricker
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Wechsler Memory Scale ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Wechsler Memory Scale Iii

Interrelations between Subjective Health and Episodic Memory Change in Swedish and Canadian Samples of Older Adults

2003 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Å Wahlin ◽  
Scott B. Maitland ◽  
Lars Bäckman ◽  
Roger A. Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Subjective Health ◽  
Longitudinal Change ◽  
Subjective Memory ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Memory Change ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Kungsholmen Project

Recent research has documented associations between subjective health ratings and objective indicators of disease and death. Less is known about relations between subjective health ratings and level of cognitive performance in older adults. In this study, we explored whether subjective health ratings are related to episodic memory performance, both concurrently and across a three-year longitudinal interval. Persons aged 75–84 years, and participating in the Swedish Kungsholmen Project ( n = 105) or the Canadian Victoria Longitudinal Study ( n = 71), were examined. Results showed that in both samples, while the cross-sectional relationship was non-significant, longitudinal change in perceptions of subjective health were related to change in episodic memory performance. Next, the two samples were combined in additional analyses. Here, results further revealed that the associations between longitudinal change in subjective health and memory performance generalized across samples independently of demographic, changing physical health status, and subjective memory decline differences. Thus, the present findings suggest that subjective health may be added to the growing number of individual-difference variables that are predictive of episodic memory change in very old age.

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