Clinical, neuropsychological, and metabolic characteristics of transient epileptic amnesia syndrome

Epilepsia

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 699-706

  Mosbah, Amel ^a   Tramoni, Eve ^b   Guedj, Eric ^b,c   Aubert, Sandrine ^a   Daquin, Géraldine ^a   Ceccaldi, Mathieu ^b,c,d   Félician, Olivier ^b,c,d   Bartolomei, Fabrice ^a,b,c,d  

^a CENTRE SAINT PAUL   (France)

^b TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Accelerated forgetting; Amnesia; EEG; Epilepsy; Episodic memory; FDG PET

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ACCELERATED FORGETTING; ADULT; AMNESIA; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; CAMERA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; ONSET AGE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEIZURE; SYNDROME DELINEATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TRANSIENT EPILEPTIC AMNESIA SYNDROME; TRANSIENT GLOBAL AMNESIA;

ACCELERATED FORGETTING; AMNESIA; EEG; EPILEPSY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FDG-PET;

AGED; AMNESIA, ANTEROGRADE; ANTICONVULSANTS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENERGY METABOLISM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TEMPORAL LOBE; THETA RHYTHM; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 84901362866     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/epi.12565     Document Type: Article

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