Disproportion in the distribution of gray and white matter: Neuropsychological correlates

Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 248-252

  Baxendale, Sallie A ^a,b   Sisodiya, S M ^a   Thompson, P J ^a   Free, S L ^a   Kitchen, N D ^a   Stevens, J M ^a   Harkness, W F J ^a   Fish, D R ^a   Shorvon, S D ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b EPILEPSY SOCIETY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INTELLECT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SCLEROSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VERBAL MEMORY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0033556341     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.52.2.248     Document Type: Article

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