http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=4618 <table border="0" width="100%"><tr><td align="left"/></tr></table> <p><b>Nonvisual spatial navigation fMRI lateralizes mesial temporal lobe epilepsy in a patient with congenital blindness.</b></p> <p>Neurocase. 2014 Dec 8;:1-5</p> <p>Authors: Toller G, Adhimoolam B, Grunwald T, Huppertz HJ, König K, Jokeit H</p> <p>Abstract<br/> Nonvisual spatial navigation functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) may help clinicians determine memory lateralization in blind individuals with refractory mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE). We report on an exceptional case of a congenitally blind woman with late-onset left MTLE undergoing presurgical memory fMRI. To activate mesial temporal structures despite the lack of visual memory, the patient was requested to recall familiar routes using nonvisual multisensory and verbal cues. Our findings demonstrate the diagnostic value of a nonvisual fMRI task to lateralize MTLE despite congenital blindness and may therefore contribute to the risk assessment for postsurgical amnesia in rare cases with refractory MTLE and accompanying congenital blindness.<br/> </p><p>PMID: 25485743 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]</p> en-us Copyright 2000-2026 NITRC OSI Fri, 01 May 2026 11:22:03 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss NITRC RSS generator