Papers: The three papers I chose all relate to relative memory and patients with neurological diseases, such as temporal lobe epilepsy, which is what I am specifically looking at, as well as multiple sclerosis. In her 2006 paper, "Remote Memory in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy," Voltzenlogel and others explore remote memory in patients with TLE and look aat the impact certain factors that are often associated with TLE, such as age of onset and seizure frequency, have on those memories. They tested patients with TLE and compared their rememberance of personal and public memories with that of healthy controls. They found that patients with TLE performed worse on autobiographical and public memory tests, but perfomed the same as the healthy controls did when personal memory was assessed. They did determine that there was no influence on memory from age of onset or seizure frequency, which I found to be a little odd, given that I have read other studies that mention these are huge factors in memory recall.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6772522/#:~:text=There%20are%20three%20key%20features,that%20extended%20to%20early%20childhood. 

The next paper of hers that I looked at was written in 2014 and looked at the influence of seizure frequency on anterograde and remote memroy in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy patients. This is a "zoom-in" from her paper written in 2006, as it looks deeper into the influence of seizure frequency on remote memory. This is a zoom-in because in her first paper, a significant link was not found between frequency of seizure and remote memory. However, in this paper, it was found significant that those patients who experienced high frequencies of seizures performed worse on autobiographical and news-events memory, due to the fact that high frequencies of seizures tend give rise to mesial temporal lobe damage which then in turn affects memory. It was intersting, however, that the frequency of seizure did not, to my and the authors' suprise, affect memory for famous people.

The third paper takes slightly a different approach and moves away from looking at how temporal lobe epilepsy affects memory and instead looks at how memories, specifically self-defining memorries, are affected in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. These patients, along with healthy controls, underwent self-defining memory questionnaires and looked at how MS affected memory and self portrayal. However, the study found that there was no significant differences in how patients with MS and healthy controls report memories about past acheivements. In this paper, it was concluded that MS does not prevent patients from defining themselves and living life and experiencing successful events. I believe in relation to the other two papers, this third paper was a "zoom out" followed by a "zoom in". It just happens that the zoom in meant looking at another neurological disease and seeing how that affected memory, instead of looking at how temporal lobe epilapsy affects memory.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810016302902?via%3Dihub