Hippocampal interictal epileptiform activity disrupts cognition in humans

Neurology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 18-24

  Kleen, Jonathan K ^a   Scott, Rod C ^a,b   Holmes, Gregory L ^a   Roberts, David W ^a   Rundle, Melissa M ^a   Testorf, Markus ^a   Lenck Santini, Pierre Pascal ^a   Jobst, Barbara C ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPTH ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPISODIC MEMORY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERICTAL EPILEPTIFORM DISCHARGE; MEMORY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPIKE WAVE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84881227944     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e318297ee50     Document Type: Article

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