Focal structural changes and cognitive dysfunction in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

Neurology

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 34-40

  O'Muircheartaigh, J ^a   Vollmar, C ^b   Barker, G J ^a   Kumari, V ^a   Symms, M R ^b   Thompson, P ^b   Duncan, J S ^b   Koepp, M J ^b   Richardson, M P ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL MEMORY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 78751638549     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e318203e93d     Document Type: Article

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