Bilateral hippocampal stimulation for intractable temporal lobe epilepsy: Impact on seizures and memory

Epilepsia

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 304-307

  McLachlan, Richard S ^a   Pigott, Susan ^a   Tellez Zenteno, Jose F ^b   Wiebe, Samuel ^c   Parrent, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

DBS; Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Memory; Seizure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TELEMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 75649113801     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2009.02332.x     Document Type: Article

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