Fluoxetine restores spatial learning but not accelerated forgetting in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

Brain

Volumn 135, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2358-2374

  Barkas, Lisa ^a   Redhead, Edward ^a   Taylor, Matthew ^a   Shtaya, Anan ^a   Hamilton, Derek A ^b   Gray, William P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

epilepsy; epilepsy memory impairment; mesial temporal sclerosis; neurogenesis; spatial memory

Indexed keywords

FLUOXETINE;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FORGETTING; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MESIAL TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84864680128     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/aws176     Document Type: Article

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