Is there a lateralized asymmetry in the sensitivity of the brain to hormones in epilepsy?

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 157-159

  Herzog, Andrew G ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ESTRADIOL; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; PROGESTERONE;

AMENORRHEA; BRAIN FUNCTION; CATAMENIAL EPILEPSY; COGNITION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EDITORIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LUTEAL PHASE; MEMORY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; OVULATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTMENOPAUSE; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BRAIN; DITERPENES, ABIETANE; EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS;

EID: 34548035782     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2007.05.008     Document Type: Editorial

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