Severe amnesia following bilateral medial temporal lobe damage occurring on two distinct occasions

Neurological Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 129-133

  Di Gennaro, G ^a   Grammaldo, L G ^a   Quarato, P P ^a   Esposito, V ^a,b   Mascia, A ^a   Sparano, A ^a   Meldolesi, G N ^a   Picardi, A ^c  

^a IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain tumour; Epilepsy surgery; Global amnesia; Memory; Neuropsychological tests; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; THETA RHYTHM; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMNESIA; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 33745603490     PISSN: 15901874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-006-0614-y     Document Type: Article

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