Visual Memory Deficits in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: Toward a Multifactorial Approach

Clinical EEG and Neuroscience

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 18-24

  Vannucci, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Event Related Potentials; Hippocampus; Memory; Right Temporal Lobe; Temporal Lobe Epilepsy; Visual Memory

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; VISUAL DISORDER;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 33947502010     PISSN: 15500594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/155005940703800107     Document Type: Article

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