Verbal working memory components can be selectively influenced by transcranial magnetic stimulation in patients with left temporal lobe epilepsy

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 775-783

  Düzel, Emrah ^a   Hufnagel, Andreas ^b   Helmstaedter, Christoph ^b   Elger, Christian ^b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Frontal lobe; Phonological loop; Serial position effects; Temporal lobe; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; PHONETICS; POSITION EFFECT; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0342936424     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0028-3932(95)00160-3     Document Type: Article

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