Cases of porencephaly and global atrophyof the temporal lobe were highly related to prenatal or perinatal insults including preterm delivery and asphyxia.
Objective To assess the value of ictal video-electroencephalography monitoring (IVEEG) in presurgical evaluation for medically intractable nonlesional temporal lobe epilepsy(TLE).
That then led us to take her to the doctor, and they were able to look at all her other symptoms, and we were able to then have a diagnosis that she had frontal temporal lobe dementia.
A lesion on a specific part of the temporal lobe may destroy a person's ability to recognize faces; traumatic memories or overactive hormones can profoundly affect our behavior and emotions
A few regions of the brain associated with autobiographical memory, like the temporal lobe, were either a different shape or showed more activity in the people with hyperthymesia.
In rare cases, herpes viruses can spread to the central nervous system and cause meningitis or encephalitis, typically affecting the temporal lobe, in individuals of all ages.
Their brains had less gray matter and their temporal lobes developed more slowly than the other children. The findings were reported in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.
So, if you damage the wrong part of your temporal lobe, you may never again be able to remember what you ate for lunch… or you might suddenly become a total jerk who kicks kittens and cuts in line.
When people suffer injuries to the hippocampus and nearby parts of the temporal lobe, they tend to lose memories from before the injury, and also can't make new memories afterward.
Other important structures found within the temporal lobe include the olfactory cortex, which processes the sensation of smell, and the amygdala which processes emotions.