Psychopathological profile in patients with severe bilateral hippocampal atrophy and temporal lobe epilepsy: Evidence in support of the Geschwind syndrome?

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 291-297

  Tebartz van Elst, L ^a,b   Krishnamoorthy, E S ^a   Baumer D ^a,b   Selai, C ^a   von Gunten, A ^a   Gene Cos, N ^a   Ebert, D ^b   Trimble, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Epilepsy; Geschwind syndrome; Hippocampus; Magnetic resonance imaging volumetry; Neuropsychiatry; Psychiatry; Religiosity; Sexuality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOGENESIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; STANDARD; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 0141818178     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1525-5050(03)00084-2     Document Type: Article

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