Why study mesial temporal atrophy in patients with intractable temporal lobe epilepsy?

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1606-1607

  Andermann, F ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY DISORDER; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EDITORIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MESIAL TEMPORAL ATROPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VOLUMETRY;

ATROPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HUMANS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0346121323     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.74.12.1606     Document Type: Editorial

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