Reduction of frontal neocortical grey matter associated with affective aggression in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy: An objective voxel by voxel analysis of automatically segmented MRI

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 162-169

  Woermann, Friedrich G ^a,b   Van Elst, Ludger Tebartz ^a,c   Koepp, Matthias J ^a   Free, Samantha L ^a   Thompson, Pamela J ^a   Trimble, Michael R ^a   Duncan, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EPILEPSY CENTER BETHEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aggression; Epilepsy; Magnetic resonance images; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; NEOCORTEX; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 0034014729     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.68.2.162     Document Type: Article

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