Temporal Lobe Atrophy May Be Underrecognized in Older Patients with New-Onset Epilepsy

Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 731-734

  Lapointe, Emmanuelle ^a   Deacon, Charles ^a   Royer Perron, Louis ^a   Cunnane, Stephen ^a   Castellano, Christian Alexandre ^a   Bocti, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's; Cognition; Epilepsy; Neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; ATROPHY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATROPHY; COHORT STUDIES; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84988969840     PISSN: 03171671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/cjn.2016.275     Document Type: Article

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