Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging suggests progressive neuronal damage in human temporal lobe epilepsy

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 135, Issue , 2002, Pages 297-304

  Bernasconi, Andrea ^a   Tasch, E ^a   Cendes, F ^a   Li, L M ^a   Arnold, D L ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CREATININE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ADULT; BRAIN METABOLISM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVE CELL LESION; NEURORADIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

EID: 0036456756     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(02)35027-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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