Verbal cognition and attention deficits do not explain the verbal memory decline associated with pharmacoresistant partial epilepsy

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 413-420

  Andersson Roswall, Lena ^a   Engman, Elisabeth ^a   Malmgren, Kristina ^a   Samuelsson, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attention; Change; Longitudinal; Partial epilepsy; Pharmacoresistance; Verbal cognition; Verbal memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; COGNITION DISORDERS; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 35748952180     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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