Les-Deliperi et al. from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, conducted a systematic review of the prognosis of naming function in patients after anterior temporal lobectomy and published the results in a recent issue of Epilepsy & Behavior. The study included 21 research papers that met the inclusion criteria. The results noted that impaired visual naming function was more common after anterior temporal lobectomy in the dominant hemisphere; Boston naming test scores decreased by a mean of 5.8 points, exceeding the credible change index (RCI); no postoperative auditory naming deficits were reported, although auditory naming was more sensitive than the Boston naming test for assessing naming aphasia; pathological changes in hippocampal structural defects and delayed epilepsy were most powerful predictors of postoperative naming function decline.