Structural and functional correlates of unilateral mesial temporal lobe spatial memory impairment

Brain

Volumn 131, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3006-3018

  Glikmann Johnston, Yifat ^a   Saling, Michael M ^a,b   Chen, Jian ^c   Cooper, Kimberlea A ^c   Beare, Richard J ^c   Reutens, David C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Material specificity; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LEARNING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SCLEROSIS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55749088960     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awn213     Document Type: Article

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