Accelerated forgetting of real-life events in Transient Epileptic Amnesia

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3235-3244

  Muhlert, N ^a   Milton, F ^a   Butler, C R ^b   Kapur, N ^c   Zeman, A Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accelerated forgetting; Epilepsy; Memory; Transient Epileptic Amnesia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; THINKING; TRANSIENT EPILEPTIC AMNESIA; WORD LIST RECALL;

EID: 77955852256     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.07.001     Document Type: Article

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