Accelerated long-term forgetting in temporal lobe epilepsy: Evidence of improvement after left temporal pole lobectomy

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 793-795

  Gallassi, Roberto ^a   Sambati, Luisa ^a   Poda, Roberto ^a   Stanzani Maserati, Michelangelo ^a   Oppi, Federico ^a   Giulioni, Marco ^b   Tinuper, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b BELLARIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accelerated long term forgetting; Amnesia; Cognitive functions; Memory; Neuropsychology; Temporal lobe epilepsy; Temporal pole lobectomy

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; OXCARBAZEPINE; VIGABATRIN;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; COGNITION; CONFUSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; HEADACHE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; UNCUS;

ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 82955233016     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2011.09.003     Document Type: Article

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