Binding deficits in memory following medial temporal lobe damage in patients with voltage-gated potassium channel complex antibody-associated limbic encephalitis

Brain

Volumn 136, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2474-2485

  Pertzov, Yoni ^a,c   Miller, Thomas D ^b   Gorgoraptis, Nikos ^a   Caine, Diana ^a   Schott, Jonathan M ^a   Butler, Chris ^b   Husain, Masud ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Encephalitis; Feature binding; Hippocampus, Relational memory; Voltage gated potassium channel antibody; Working memory

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL COMPLEX ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; ORIENTATION; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STEROID THERAPY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84880963519     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awt129     Document Type: Article

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