Neural correlates of verbal semantic memory in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 72, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 178-191

  Köylü, Bülent ^a   Trinka, Eugen ^a   Ischebeck, Anja ^a   Visani, Pamela ^a   Trieb, Thomas ^a   Kremser, Christian ^a   Bartha, Lisa ^a   Schocke, Michael ^a   Benke, Thomas ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

fMRI; Semantic memory; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; THALAMUS; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH;

EID: 33845329487     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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