Epilepsy: Preserving memory in temporal lobectomy - Are networks the key?

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 245-246

  Duchowny, Michael ^a   Bhatia, Sanjiv ^a  

^a MIAMI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; VERBAL MEMORY;

ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; BRAIN; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY DISORDERS;

EID: 84900854537     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2014.67     Document Type: Article

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