Temporal+Lobe

Temporal Lobe

The temporal lobe, in very simple terms, is for remembering, seeing, and hearing things. It deals with auditory and visual senses, and visual perception. It also deals with language comprehension, and long term memory.  "Life is a Highway"

Well, memories like a road that you travel on There's vision or sight and the next day gone Sometimes you remember, sometimes you forget Sometimes you turn your back to the wind

There's a light outside every darkened door Where you aren't blinded anymore For the sights are free and pictures soar Come watch with me at the ocean shore

We won't foret Since temporal holds long memory We'll remember what we learned today, yea

Axon is a highway, send my messages All night long If you're learning my way, I wanna remember it All night long

-Dani Tomczak and Stacy Kitchener


 * Temporal Lobe Articles**
 * 1) **"** [|**Brains White Matter May Help Predict Schizophrenia"**] This article is about white matter in the temporal lobe in the brain. This matter can be measured, and increases in integrity steadily as you get older. It does not, however, increase steadily in patients with a high risk for psychosis. This can help us to predict, based on the amount of this white matter, whether or not a person has diseases such as schizophrenia. It impacts us because if we ever think that we might have schizophrenia, we can be tested by the amount of this white matter in our temporal lobes.
 * 2) [|Déjà Vu: If It All Seems Familiar, There May Be a Reason] This artilce is about Déjà Vu, and how it works. It talks about how Déjà Vu is more of the brains recollection of events that have already taken place, but they seem more familiar then they should. Déjà Vu is often experienced in people with epilepsy before they have seizures. The temporal lobe can sometimes become over active, and send messages to the rest of the brain to make it feel more familiarity then it should. Therefore, you think you remember something, but you really don't. This reveals a little bit more about the phenomenon know as Déjà Vu, which scientists know little about. This impacts us because we can be more informed about Déjà Vu.
 * 3) [|How the brain processes speech] This artilce is telling us how he process everyday speech. It says that sound waves enter our ears, and the signals run along two pathways. The author splits them up as the What and the Where pathways. The What pathway runs through the temporal lobe. Its main job is to figure out what the speech is, how loud it is, and to figure out other complec auditory signals. This is known as Semantics. This has an impact on psychology because it furthers our knowledge of the brain, and how it works. We now know more about how to treat a patient that can't tell what kind of sounds they are hearing. This has an impact on our lives because if we ever had these problems, or got hit in the temporal lobes, doctors are now better equipped to treat us.

2. [|Damage in the medial temporal lobe of adults with partial epilepsy] (Departments of Neurology and Radiology at the University of Kuopio and the Kuopio University Hospital, 1995-2000) --Holynn McKay--
 * Case Studies pertaining to Temporal Lobe damage:**
 * 1) The [|fate of old memories] (The Journal of Neuroscience, December 20, 2006)
 * 8 patients evaluated
 * 6 with restricted hippocampal lesions, 2 with large medial temporal lobe lesions
 * covers three time periods, recent past, early adult life, and child hood
 * Found the 2 patients with medial temporal lobe lesions suffered worse from amnesia then 6 patients with restricted hippocampal lesions
 * Eventually, both forms of lesions cause prolonged retrograde amnesia
 * 259 patients investigated with quantitative MRI's
 * Seperated into two groups, reoccuring epilepsy & partial epilepsy
 * 167 patients with reoccuring seizures, 92 with spontanious seziures
 * High lifetime seizures, complex convulsions through out medical history, and early age of spontanious seizures contributed to damage in patients
 * However, damage in hippocampus is very rare in patients with spontanious seizures
 * In contrast, hippocampal damage is apparent in patients with chronic seizures

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