Magnetic resonance volumetry reveals focal brain atrophy in transient epileptic amnesia.

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Transient epileptic amnesia (TEA) is a recently described epilepsy syndrome characterized by recurrent episodes of isolated memory loss. It is associated with two unusual forms of interictal memory impairment: accelerated long-term forgetting (ALF) and autobiographical amnesia. We investigated the neural basis of TEA using manual volumetry and automated multi-atlas-based segmentation of whole-brain magnetic resonance imaging data from 40 patients with TEA and 20 healthy controls. Both methods...

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Authors: Butler, C; van Erp, W; Bhaduri, A; Hammers, A; Heckemann, R

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Epilepsy and behavior : EandB
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 363-369
• Publication date: 2013-09-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2013.05.018
• EISSN: 1525-5069
• ISSN: 1525-5050
• Language: English
• Keywords: Epilepsy; Female; Neuropsychological Tests; Statistics, Nonparametric; Brain; Male; Memory, Episodic; Aged; Automatic Data Processing; Cognition Disorders; Middle Aged; Atrophy; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Humans; Amnesia