The overall pathological status of the left hippocampus determines preoperative verbal memory performance in left mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

Hippocampus

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 446-454

  Witt, Juri Alexander ^a   Coras, Roland ^b   Schramm, Johannes ^a   Becker, Albert J ^a   Elger, Christian E ^a   Blümcke, Ingmar ^b   Helmstaedter, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognition; Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy; Neuronal cell counts; Neuropathology; Neuropsychology

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN SURGERY; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; DENTATE GYRUS; DENTATE HILUS; FEMALE; FIGURAL MEMORY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA2 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEARNING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MESIAL TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT; COMPLICATION; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; MEMORY DISORDERS; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904240292     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22238     Document Type: Article

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