Do recent seizures and recent changes in antiepileptic drugs impact performances on neuropsychological tests in subtle ways that might easily be missed?

Epilepsia

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1833-1832

  Dodrill, Carl B ^a,b   Ojemann, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

AEDs; Epilepsy; Neuropsychology; Seizures; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APTITUDE TEST; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; VALIDITY;

EID: 35148844242     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01140.x     Document Type: Article

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