Memory impairment and Benign Epilepsy with centrotemporal spike (BECTS): A growing suspicion

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 123-131

  Verrotti, Alberto ^a   Filippini, Melissa ^b   Matricardi, Sara ^c   Agostinelli, Maria Flavia ^c   Gobbi, Giuseppe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS ISTITUTO DELLE SCIENZE NEUROLOGICHE DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

BECTS; Declarative memory; Fronto temporal network; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BENIGN EPILEPSY WITH CENTROTEMPORAL SPIKE; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; INTERICTAL EPILEPTIFORM DISCHARGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NONREM SLEEP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPATHY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SLEEP PATTERN; VERBAL MEMORY; WAKEFULNESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; ROLANDIC EPILEPSY; SLEEP;

EPILEPSY, ROLANDIC; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; SLEEP;

EID: 84890842765     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2013.11.014     Document Type: Article

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