Article

Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is a type of epilepsy that often has a negative
impact on patients' memory. Despite the importance of patients' complaints in
this regard, the difficulties described by these patients are often not easy to
demonstrate through a standard neuropsychological assessment. Accelerated
long-term forgetting and autobiographical memory disorders are the two main
memory impairments reported in the literature in patients with TLE. However, the
methods used by different authors to evaluate long-term memory and
autobiographical memory are heterogeneous. This heterogeneity can lead to
differences in the observed results as well as how they are interpreted. Yet,
despite the methodological differences, objectification of such memory deficits
appears to be both specific and robust within this patient population. Analysis
of the literature shows that accelerated long-term forgetting and
autobiographical memory disorders share the same clinical characteristics. This
leads to the assumption that they are, in fact, only one entity and that their
evaluation may be done through a single procedure. Our proposal is to place this
evaluation within the context of memory consolidation disorders. With such a
perspective, evaluation of accelerated forgetting in autobiographical memory
should consist of identifying a disorder in the formation and/or recovery of new
memory traces.
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