Shaimaa Hussein Soliman Sayed <br/><br/>
White matter microstructure changes and memory impairment in temporal lobe epilepsy /  
 التغييرات الدقيقة فى المادة البيضاء و اضطراب الذاكرة فى مرضى صرع الفص الصدغي 
Shaimaa Hussein Soliman Sayed ; Supervised Mohamed Hussein Altawdy , Hanan Amer , Almetwally Aly 
 - Cairo :   Shaimaa Hussein Soliman Sayed ,   2017 
 - 216 P. :   charts , facsimiles ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Neurosurgery 
<br/><br/> Background : memory impairment is a major concern for TLE patients . diffusion tensor imaging ( DTI ) is used to assess white matter tracts integrity and its relation to memory in TLE . Objective : to assess memory performance in TLE , white matter integrity by DTI and then correlate both of them with each other and with seizure related variables . Subjects and methods : A 30 patients ( 18 LT TLE , 12 RT TLE ) and 20 controls underwent memory assessment and studied with DTI ( fractional anisotropy ( F A ) and apparent diffusion coefficient ( ADC ) FOR 6 tracts ; parahippocampal cingulum ( PHC ) , superior and inferior longitudinal fasciculus ( SLF ,ILF ) , uncinate fasciculus ( UF ) , fornix ( FORX ) , corpus callosum ( CC ) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Diffusion tensor imaging Memory impairment Temporal lobe epilepsy