Verbal retention lateralizes patients with unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy and bilateral hippocampal atrophy

Epilepsia

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 651-659

  Sawrie, Stephen M ^a   Martin, Roy C ^a   Gilliam, Frank ^a   Knowlton, Robert ^a   Faught, Ed ^a   Kuzniecky, Ruben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Memory; MRI volumetry; Neuropsychology; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; BRAIN DISEASES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL LEARNING; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 0035024092     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2001.30200.x     Document Type: Article

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