Memory tests distinguish between patients with focal temporal and extratemporal lobe epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 165-170

  Breier, J I ^a   Plenger, P M ^a   Wheless, J W ^a   Thomas, A B ^a   Brookshire, B L ^a   Curtis, V L ^a   Papanicolaou, A ^a   Willmore, L J ^a   Clifton, G L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Epilepsy; Extratemporal lobe; Memory; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL LEARNING; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 0030038539     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1996.tb00008.x     Document Type: Article

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