The chicken with four legs: A case of semantic amnesia and cryptogenic epilepsy

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 261-268

  Giovagnoli, Anna R ^a   Villani, Flavio ^a   Bell, Brian ^b   Erbetta, Alessandra ^a   Avanzini, Giuliano ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Dementia; Imaging; Object naming; Semantic memory; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; LAMOTRIGINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ANOMIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CRYPTOGENIC TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MALE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PERSONALITY DISORDER; SEMANTIC AMNESIA; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SUICIDAL IDEATION; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

AMNESIA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149166747     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2008.09.015     Document Type: Article

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