Epileptic activity influences the speech organization in medial temporal lobe epilepsy

Brain

Volumn 126, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2043-2051

  Janszky, J ^a,b   Jokeit, H ^a   Heinemann, D ^a   Schulz, R ^a   Woermann, F G ^a   Ebner, A ^a  

^a EPILEPSY CENTER BETHEL   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Interictal epileptiform discharges; Language reorganization; Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy; Seizure spread

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC AURA; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PELIZAEUS MERZBACHER DISEASE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPEECH; SPEECH DISORDER; SPIKE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; WADA TEST;

EID: 0041820009     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awg193     Document Type: Article

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