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Subtypes Of Memory Impairment In Patients With Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Nicole C. Mickley
Subtypes Of Memory Impairment In Patients With Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Nicole C. Mickley
Psychology Dissertations
Memory impairments are common in individuals with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). This is understandable given that temporal lobe brain structures involved in TLE play a central role in encoding memories. It is widely accepted that individuals whose seizure focus is in the left temporal lobe (LTLE) tend to have verbal memory impairments, whereas individuals whose seizure focus is in the right temporal lobe (RTLE) tend to have visuospatial memory impairments. However, evidence of functional subdivisions within the left and right temporal lobes in both the animal and human literature suggest that more specific subtypes of memory impairment may exist in …
Personality As A Gestalt: A Cluster Analytic Approach To The Big Five, Thomas John Reece
Personality As A Gestalt: A Cluster Analytic Approach To The Big Five, Thomas John Reece
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
There has been a recent resurgence in interest in the study of personality types. This personality type research has focused on the uncovering of statistical types, rather than relying on rationally developed types. Using the method of cluster analysis, I investigated whether such statistical types could be uncovered and whether they correspond to the types described in previous analyses. The expected number of personality types was uncovered and, while these types resemblanced the personality types discussed in the literature, the patterns of scores for these types were not exactly as hypothesized.