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Meyer, Mitchell, and Pond, 1955) the results of treating intractable temporal lobe epilepsy by tem-poral lobectomy were given. A survey was reported of the clinical, electroencephalographic, radiological, and pathological findings in 31 cases. The follow-up study of the patients showed beneficial effects upon the epilepsy and upon the personality disorder in a proportion which compared very favourably with most published series. The opinion was expressed that this was due to inclusion of the uncus, Ammon's horn, and possibly the amygdaloid nucleus in the resected tissue. Certainly it is in the anterior and medial structures of the temporal lobe that the main sites of pathological change are found (Earle, Baldwin, and Penfield, 1953; Meyer, Falconer, an