Interictal language functions in temporal lobe epilepsy

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 808-814

  Bartha, Lisa ^a   Benke, T ^a   Bauer, G ^a   Trinka, E ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; LAMOTRIGINE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PRIMIDONE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CELL LOSS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DEAFFERENTATION; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC AURA; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; NERVE CELL LESION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPEECH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; WADA TEST; WRITING;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCLEROSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 20444408083     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2004.045385     Document Type: Article

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