Epilepsy: Is localization-related epilepsy a progressive disorder? Maybe...

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 356-357

  Kuzniecky, Ruben ^a   Thesen, Thomas ^a   Devinsky, Orrin ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; CONVULSION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; FOCAL EPILEPSY; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY;

ATROPHY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 77949321626     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2009.82     Document Type: Short Survey

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