Accelerated long-term forgetting can become apparent within 3-8 hours of wakefulness in patients with transient epileptic amnesia

Neuropsychology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 117-125

  Hoefeijzers, Serge ^a   Dewar, Michaela ^a,b   Sala, Sergio Della ^a   Butler, Christopher ^c   Zeman, Adam ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accelerated long term forgetting; Consolidation; Epilepsy; Memory; Transient epileptic amnesia

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED LONG TERM FORGETTING; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; STIMULUS; TIME; TRANSIENT EPILEPTIC AMNESIA; WAKEFULNESS; WORD LIST RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION; ADULT; AMNESIA; EPILEPSY; LEARNING; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; RECALL; SLEEP; TIME FACTOR;

ADULT; AMNESIA; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SLEEP; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84925965705     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: 19311559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/neu0000114     Document Type: Article

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