Assessment of working memory in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy associated with unilateral hippocampal sclerosis

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 223-228

  Tudesco, Ivanda de Souza Silva ^a   Vaz, Leonardo José ^a   Mantoan, Marcele Araújo Silva ^a   Belzunces, Erich ^a   Noffs, Maria Helena ^a   Caboclo, Luís Otávio Sales Ferreira ^a   Yacubian, Elza Márcia Targas ^a   Sakamoto, Américo Ceiki ^a   Bueno, Orlando Francisco Amodeo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Episodic buffer; Episodic memory; Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy; Semantic memory; Sequencing process; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MESIAL TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RELIABILITY; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; COMPLICATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCLEROSIS;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SCLEROSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 77954383291     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2010.04.021     Document Type: Article

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