The Amygdala and Sexual Drive: Insights from Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Surgery

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 87-96

  Baird, Amee D ^a   Wilson, Sarah J ^a   Bladin, Peter F ^a   Saling, Michael M ^a   Reutens, David C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIBIDO; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VOLUMETRY;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0347949708     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.10997     Document Type: Article

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