Absence of memory dysfunction after bilateral mammillary body and mammillothalaniic tract electrode implantation: Preliminary experience in three patients [5]

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 195-197

  Duprez, Thierry P ^a   Serieh, Basel Abu ^a   Raftopoulos, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CATHETERIZATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTRODE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; KORSAKOFF PSYCHOSIS; LETTER; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAMMILLARY BODY; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; THALAMUS; BRAIN FORNIX; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EPILEPSY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI; CLINICAL TRIALS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EPILEPSY; FORNIX (BRAIN); HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMILLARY BODIES; MEDIODORSAL THALAMIC NUCLEUS; MEMORY DISORDERS; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 18744413557     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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