Selective memory impairment for public events in a patient with left temporal lobe epilepsy

Highly selective memory impairment for public events was demonstrated in a patient (JR), who suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). We successfully trained JR's memory for a set of news events and discuss, on those bases, the characteristics of news events processing that may have contributed to its increased vulnerability relative to autobiographical memory (AbM). (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.