Deficient memory acquisition in temporal lobe epilepsy is predicted by hippocampal granule cell loss

Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1383-1389

  Pauli, E ^a   Hildebrandt, M ^a   Romstock J ^a   Stefan, H ^a   Blumcke I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; WADA TEST;

ADULT; AMOBARBITAL; CAROTID ARTERIES; CELL COUNT; DENTATE GYRUS; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 33750330128     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000239828.36651.73     Document Type: Article

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