Early epilepsy surgery

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 315-320

  Wiebe, Samuel ^a  

^a LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ALERTNESS; ATTENTION; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX ATROPHY; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DRUG MEGADOSE; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 3543141109     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-004-0058-9     Document Type: Review

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