Cognitive functions in juvenile and adult patients with gelastic epilepsy due to hypothalamic hamartoma

Epilepsia

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 153-158

  Quiske, Ansgar ^a,c   Frings, Lars ^a   Wagner, Kathrin ^a   Unterrainer, Josef ^b   Schulze Bonhage, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognition; Gelastic seizures; Hypothalamic hamartoma; Memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GELASTIC SEIZURE; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; INTELLECT; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; COGNITION DISORDERS; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; LAUGHTER; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; VERBAL LEARNING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33645033078     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00381.x     Document Type: Article

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