The neurobiology of cognitive disorders in temporal lobe epilepsy

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 154-164

  Bell, Brian ^a   Lin, Jack J ^b   Seidenberg, Michael ^c   Hermann, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL FACTOR;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPISODIC MEMORY; HUMAN; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL APPROACH; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; VERBAL MEMORY; WADA TEST;

COGNITION DISORDERS; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 79952575607     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2011.3     Document Type: Review

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