Severe amnesia: An unusual late complication after temporal lobectomy

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 975-988

  Oxbury, Susan ^a   Oxbury, John ^a   Renowden, Shelley ^a   Squier, Waney ^a   Carpenter, Katherine ^a  

^a RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Hippocampal sclerosis; Hippocampus; Memory; MRI; Neuropathology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN FORNIX; CASE REPORT; CONVULSION; EPILEPSY; HEAD INJURY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MAMMILLARY BODY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; VERBAL MEMORY; ATROPHY; BRAIN MAPPING; CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PSYCHOSURGERY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADULT; AMNESIA, RETROGRADE; AMYGDALA; ATROPHY; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MAMILLARY BODIES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PSYCHOSURGERY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0030611032     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(97)00025-0     Document Type: Article

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