Magnetic resonance volumetry reveals focal brain atrophy in transient epileptic amnesia

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 363-369

  Butler, Christopher ^a   van Erp, Willemijn ^b   Bhaduri, Amit ^c   Hammers, Alexander ^d,e   Heckemann, Rolf ^d,e   Zeman, Adam ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Highgate Mental Health Centre   (United Kingdom)

^d The Neurodis Foundation Fondation Neurodis   (France)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Memory; Neuropsychology; Transient epileptic amnesia

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMNESIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE VOLUMETRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERIRHINAL CORTEX; PYRIFORM CORTEX; SUBICULUM; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TRANSIENT EPILEPTIC AMNESIA; VOLUMETRY;

EPILEPSY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; TRANSIENT EPILEPTIC AMNESIA;

AGED; AMNESIA; ATROPHY; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84880290213     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2013.05.018     Document Type: Article

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