Voxel based morphometry of grey matter abnormalities in patients with medically intractable temporal lobe epilepsy: Effects of side of seizure onset and epilepsy duration

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 648-656

  Keller, S S ^a   Wieshmann, U C ^b   Mackay, C E ^c   Denby, C E ^a   Webb, J ^c   Roberts, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b WALTON CENTRE FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOMETRY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALA; ATROPHY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0036902935     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.73.6.648     Document Type: Article

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