Amygdala volumes in childhood absence epilepsy

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 436-441

  Schreibman Cohen, Ayelet ^a,c   Daley, Melita ^a   Siddarth, Prabha ^a   Levitt, Jennifer ^a   Loesch, Ingrid K ^a   Altshuler, Lori ^a   Ly, Ronald ^a   Shields, W Donald ^a   Gurbani, Suresh ^b   Caplan, Rochelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; Childhood absence epilepsy; Gender; Magnetic resonance imaging; Psychopathology; Seizure variables

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALA; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BRAIN MAPPING; CHECKLIST; CHILD; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 70350622863     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2009.08.009     Document Type: Article

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