Prefrontal asymmetric interictal glucose hypometabolism and cognitive impairment in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy

Brain

Volumn 120, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2283-2294

  Jokeit, Hennric ^a,d   Seitz, Rüdiger J ^c   Markowitsch, Hans J ^b   Neumann, Nicola ^a,b   Witte, Otto W ^c   Ebner, Alois ^a  

^a EPILEPSY CENTER BETHEL   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d MARA 1 ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognition; Epilepsy; FDG PET; Prefrontal cortex; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GLUCOSE; PHENYTOIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FEMALE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADULT; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPEECH; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 0031440448     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/120.12.2283     Document Type: Article

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