Hippocampal N-acetylaspartate in neocortical epilepsy and mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 194-199

  Vermathen, Peter ^a,e   Ende, Gabriele ^a,c   Laxer, Kenneth D ^b   Knowlton, Robert C ^b,d   Matson, Gerald B ^a   Weiner, Michael W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^d SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADULT; ASPARTIC ACID; CHOLINE; CREATINE; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0030743566     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.410420210     Document Type: Article

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