Levetiracetam reduces abnormal network activations in temporal lobe epilepsy

Neurology

Volumn 83, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 1508-1512

  Wandschneider, Britta ^a   Stretton, Jasonmsc ^a,b   Sidhu, Meneka ^a   Centeno, Maria ^a,c   Kozák, Lajos R ^d   Symms, Mark ^a   Thompson, Pamela J ^a   Duncan, John S ^a   Koepp, Matthias J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETIRACETAM; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; OXYGEN; PIRACETAM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; WORKING MEMORY; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BLOOD; BRAIN; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DRUG EFFECTS; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PIRACETAM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925967580     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000000910     Document Type: Article

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