Emotional Recognition in Patients With Mesial Temporal Epilepsy Associated With Enlarged Amygdala

Background:Amygdalae play a central role in emotional processing by interconnecting frontal cortex and other brain structures. Unilateral amygdala enlargement (AE) is associated with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (mTLE). In a relatively large sample of patients with mTLE and AE, we aimed to evaluate...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Neurology
Main Authors:	Giorgi Kuchukhidze, Iris Unterberger, Elisabeth Schmid, Laura Zamarian, Christian Michael Siedentopf, Florian Koppelstaetter, Elke Gizewski, Martin Kronbichler, Gerhard Luef, Hennric Jokeit, Eugen Trinka
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-01-01
Subjects:	amygdala temporal lobe epilepsy epilepsy surgery fMRI emotion recognition
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2021.803787/full