Psychosocial status before and after temporal lobe epilepsy surgery: A prospective clinical study

Neurosurgery

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1071-1078

  Tanriverdi, Taner ^a   Poulin, Nicole ^a   Olivier, Andre ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Psychosocial outcome; Quality of life; Seizure outcome; Surgery; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

AGED; AGITATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MONOTHERAPY; MORBIDITY; NERVOUSNESS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SCORING SYSTEM; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; ADULT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROSURGERY; PSYCHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 49049088791     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000325869.14387.83     Document Type: Article

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