Memory outcome after pediatric epilepsy surgery: Objective and subjective perspectives

Child Neuropsychology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 151-164

  Lou Smith, Mary ^a,c   Elliott, Irene ^a   Lach, Lucyna ^b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY SURGERY; FACE; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROSURGERY; NEWBORN; ONSET AGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ONTARIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33746154146     PISSN: 09297049     EISSN: 17444136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09297040591001076     Document Type: Article

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