The neural basis of autobiographical memory deficits in transient epileptic amnesia

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 3528-3541

  Milton, Fraser ^a   Butler, Christopher R ^b   Benattayallah, A ^c   Zeman, Adam Z J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Dynamic causal modeling; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Medial temporal lobes; Transient epileptic amnesia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; ONSET AGE; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TRANSIENT EPILEPTIC AMNESIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OXYGEN;

EID: 84868470103     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.09.027     Document Type: Article

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