Accelerated long-term forgetting of verbal information in unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy: Is it related to structural hippocampal abnormalities and/or incomplete learning?

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 158-169

  Lah, Suncica ^a,b   Mohamed, Armin ^c,d   Thayer, Zoe ^c   Miller, Laurie ^b,c   Diamond, Keri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN COGNITION AND ITS DISORDERS   (Australia)

^c ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TIME;

ADULT; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84894680793     PISSN: 13803395     EISSN: 1744411X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13803395.2013.874405     Document Type: Article

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