Epilepsy-related long-term amnesia: Anatomical perspectives

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 2973-2980

  Butler, Chris ^a   Kapur, Narinder ^b   Zeman, Adam ^c   Weller, Roy ^d   Connelly, Alan ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Consolidation; Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Imaging; Post mortem; Transient epileptic amnesia

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ACCELERATED LONG TERM FORGETTING; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; AUTOPSY; CELL LOSS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY RELATED LONG TERM AMNESIA; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; GLIOSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE CELL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TRANSIENT EPILEPTIC AMNESIA; VOLUMETRY;

AGED; AMNESIA; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN; DEMOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GLIOSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; TEMPORAL LOBE; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 84868300064     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.07.027     Document Type: Article

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