Predictors of seizure outcome in newly diagnosed partial epilepsy: Memory performance as a prognostic factor

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 159-167

  Äikiä, Marja ^a   Kälviäinen, Reetta ^a   Mervaala, Esa ^a   Riekkinen Sr, Paavo J ^b  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cognition; Epilepsy; Memory; Outcome; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; DRUG RESISTANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 17744406869     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-1211(99)00059-5     Document Type: Article

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