Specificity of memory deficits after right or left temporal lobectomy

Cortex

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 561-571

  Pillon, Bernard ^a,b   Bazin, Bertrand ^b   Deweer, Bernard ^a   Ehrlé, Nathalie ^b   Baulac, Michel ^b   Dubois, Bruno ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Spatial memory; Temporal lobe resection; Verbal memory

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RECALL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 0032861437     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70819-0     Document Type: Article

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