The Family Pictures subtest of the WMS-III: Relationship to verbal and visual memory following temporal lobectomy for intractable epilepsy

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 498-504

  Chapin, Jessica S ^a   Busch, Robyn M ^a   Naugle, Richard I ^a   Najm, Imad M ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Family pictures; Laterality; Memory; Wechsler Memory Scale Third Edition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LOGIC; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; THERAPY EFFECT; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EPILEPSY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROSURGERY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; COGNITION DISORDERS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 67650770101     PISSN: 13803395     EISSN: 1744411X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13803390802317575     Document Type: Article

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