Learning and memory impairment in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy: Relation to the presence, type, and location of brain lesion

Epilepsia

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 904-911

  Giovagnoli, Anna R ^a,b   Avanzini, Giuliano ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^b II Divisione Neurologica   (Italy)

Author keywords

Learning; Lesion; Memory; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY;

BRAIN DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SCLEROSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0032977348     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1999.tb00797.x     Document Type: Article

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