Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy and hippocampal sclerosis: Cognitive function assessment in Hispanic patients

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 717-722

  Oddo, Silvia ^a,b,c,d   Solís, Patricia ^a,b,d   Consalvo, Damián ^a,b,d   Giagante, Brenda ^a,b,d   Silva, Water ^a,b,c,d   D'Alessio, Luciana ^a,b,d   Centurión, Estela ^a,b,d   Saidón, Patricia ^a,b   Kochen, Silvia ^a,b,c,d  

^a HOSPITAL RAMOS MEJÍA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^d Centre de Estudios Farmacologicos y Botanicos   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cognitive functions; Epilepsy; Language; Memory; Mesial temporal lobe; Neuropsychological assesment; Spanish

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELIZAEUS MERZBACHER DISEASE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 0346157278     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2003.09.008     Document Type: Article

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