Behavioral and neuropsychological aspects of frontal and temporal lobe epilepsy

The Neuropsychiatry of Epilepsy, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 90-108

  Helmstaedter, Christoph ^a   Witt, Juri Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511977145.010     Document Type: Chapter

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