Autobiographical amnesia and accelerated forgetting in transient epileptic amnesia

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 76, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1387-1391

  Manes, F ^b   Graham, K S ^a   Zeman, A ^c   De Lujan Calcagno M ^b   Hodges, J R ^a,d  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b Instituto de Investigaciones Neurologicas Raul Carrera   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TRANSIENT EPILEPTIC ISCHEMIA; VERBAL MEMORY;

AGED; AMNESIA; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 25444517292     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2004.036582     Document Type: Article

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