Executive functions in adolescents with idiopathic generalized epilepsy

Medicina

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 313-319

  Gelžiniene, Giedre ^a   Jurkevičiene, Giedre ^a   Marmiene, Vitalija ^a   Adomaitiene, Virginija ^a   Endziniene, Milda ^a  

^a LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Executive functions; Generalized tonicclonic seizures; Idiopathic generalized epilepsy; Myoclonias

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 80053513390     PISSN: 00257729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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