Cognitive and psychiatric impairment in herpes simplex virus encephalitis suggest involvement of the amygdalo-frontal pathways

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 243, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 248-256

  Caparros Lefebvre, D ^a   Girard Buttaz, I ^a   Reboul, S ^b   Lebert, F ^a   Cabaret, M ^a   Verier, A ^c   Steinling, M ^a   Pruvo, J P ^a   Petit, H ^a  

^a LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c Lens Hospital   (France)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Herpes simplex virus encephalitis; Hippocampus; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN PERFUSION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ACYCLOVIR; ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COGNITION DISORDERS; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0030030363     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00868522     Document Type: Article

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