Quantitative post-mortem study of the hippocampus in chronic epilepsy: Seizures do not inevitably cause neuronal loss

Brain

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1344-1357

  Thom, Maria ^a,b   Zhou, Jiemin ^a   Martinian, Lillian ^a   Sisodiya, Sanjay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Development; Epilepsy; Hippocampal sclerosis; Post mortem; Quantitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CELL LOSS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; GLIOSIS; GRANULE CELL; HEREDITY; HETEROTOPIA; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; STEREOLOGY;

EID: 20444507146     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh475     Document Type: Article

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