University Hospital Freiburg i. Br., Epilepsy Center, Germany.
Epilepsy Behav. 2013 Jul;28(1):71-7. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2013.04.002. Epub 2013 May 8.
Flashbulb memories (FMs) are vivid and stable autobiographical memories associated with learning surprising news of high emotional impact. Patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) can have autobiographical memory deficits. This is the first investigation of FMs in TLE applying a consistency measure of FM quality controlling for confabulation.
A sample of 12 patients with TLE and a matched group of 15 healthy controls (HCs) were tested on an FM test including a retest procedure. Scores of FM consistency were obtained by comparing answers across both testing occasions.
In patients with TLE, FM consistency scores were significantly lower than in HCs. Exploratory subgroup analyses revealed FM deficits in both patients with left TLE and patients with right TLE compared with HCs.
The present study indicates that the FMs of patients with TLE are less consistent than those of healthy control subjects. Future investigations with larger samples are desirable, especially regarding separate analyses of patients with left TLE and patients with right TLE.
闪回记忆（FM）是与学习具有高情感冲击的惊人新闻相关的生动而稳定的自传体记忆。颞叶癫痫（TLE）患者可能存在自传体记忆缺陷。这是首次应用 FM 质量一致性测量来控制虚构，对 TLE 中的 FM 进行调查。
对 12 名 TLE 患者和 15 名匹配的健康对照组（HCs）进行 FM 测试，包括重测程序。通过比较两次测试的答案获得 FM 一致性得分。
TLE 患者的 FM 一致性评分明显低于 HCs。探索性亚组分析显示，与 HCs 相比，左 TLE 患者和右 TLE 患者的 FM 均存在缺陷。
本研究表明，TLE 患者的 FM 不如健康对照组一致。未来需要进行更大样本的研究，特别是对左 TLE 患者和右 TLE 患者进行单独分析。
