Decision making under ambiguity in temporal lobe epilepsy: Does the location of the underlying structural abnormality matter?

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 34-37

  Delazer, Margarete ^a   Zamarian, Laura ^a   Bonatti, Elisabeth ^a   Walser, Nicola ^a   Kuchukhidze, Giorgi ^a   Bodner, Thomas ^a   Benke, Thomas ^a   Koppelstaetter, Florian ^a   Trinka, Eugen ^a,b  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Decision making; Gambling; IOWA Gambling Task; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEOCORTEX; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADULT; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; GAMBLING; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 78651243290     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2010.11.006     Document Type: Article

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