Cognitive outcomes of different surgical approaches in temporal lobe epilepsy

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 221-239

  Helmstaedter, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognition; Memory; Outcome; Selective surgery; Standard surgery; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ATTENTION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN TISSUE; CALIFORNIA VERBAL LEARNING TEST; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LESIONAL NEOCORTICECTOMY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEMORY DISORDER; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NERVE FIBER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RADIOSURGERY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SELECTIVE AMYGDALO HIPPOCAMPECTOMY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE;

ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84884678431     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: 19506945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2013.0587     Document Type: Review

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