Long term effects of refractory temporal lobe epilepsy on cognitive abilities: A cross sectional study

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 44-50

  Jokeit, Hennric ^a   Ebner, Alois ^a  

^a EPILEPSY CENTER BETHEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognition; Dementia; Epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE DURATION; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; VARIANCE;

EID: 0033000664     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.67.1.44     Document Type: Article

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