| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 464 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- Part 1. History -- 2. Memory before and after H.M.: an impressionistic historical perspective -- 3. Memory disorders and epilepsy during the nineteenth century -- Part. 2 Overviews of memory and epilepsy -- 4. Interictal memory disturbance: a comparative phenomenology and epidemiology of memory impairment in epilepsies -- 5. Long-term follow-up of memory in patients with epilepsy -- 6. Memory in children with epilepsy -- Part 3. Ictal and interictal memory phenomena -- 7. Dèjá experiences in epilepsy: contributions from memory research -- 8. The syndrome of transient epileptic amnesia -- 9. Effects of epileptiform EEG discharges on cognitive function -- Part 4. Assessment -- 10. Neuropsychological assessment of memory in patients with epilepsy -- 11. Memory assessment in intracarotid anaesthetic procedures: history and current status -- 12. Epilepsy and the study of spatial memory using virtual reality -- Part 5. Remote memory and psychiatric disorders -- 13. Remote memory and temporal lobe epilepsy -- 14. Electroconvulsive therapy for depression and autobiographical memory -- 15. Psychiatric aspects of memory disorders in epilepsy -- Part 6. Imaging and event-related potentials (ERPs) -- 16. Structural imaging and neuropathological correlates of memory in epilepsy -- 17. Functional imaging of memory in epilepsy -- 18. Electrophysiological studies of memory in epilepsy -- Part 7. Intracranial stimulation and recording -- 19. Memory and epilepsy in nonhuman animals -- 20. Hippocampal electrical stimulation and localisation of long-term episodic memory -- 21 Interrelationships between epilepsy, sleep, and memory""""22 Mapping memories in the medial temporal lobe: contributions from single-neuron recordings in patients with epilepsy -- Part 8. Management and outcome -- 23. Anticonvulsants and memory -- 24. Effects of amygdalohippocampectomy versus corticoamygdalohippocampectomy on memory and nonmemory cognitive functions -- 25. Memory rehabilitation for people with epilepsy -- Author index |
| Summary |
Epilepsy is the most common potentially serious disorder of the brain, and patients often suffer from memory problems. This book reviews all aspects of the relationship between this common and potentially serious neurological disorder and memory, one of the core functions of the human mind |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Epilepsy -- Complications
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Memory disorders.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Neuropsychology.
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Epilepsy -- Complications
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Memory disorders
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Zeman, Adam.
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Kapur, Narinder.
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Jones-Gotman, Marilyn.
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| ISBN |
9780191625633 |
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0191625639 |
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1283576333 |
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9781283576338 |
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