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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Hippocampal Sclerosis"”.
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Old-age hippocampal sclerosis in the aged population
Old-age hippocampal sclerosis (HS), characterised by severe neuron loss in hippocampal CA1, is a poorly understood cause of dementia. At present no objective pathological HS criteria exist. In life HS is commonly diagnosed as Alzheimer's disease. HS aetiology is unclear, although it has been …
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ANATOMICAL AND ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF AN ANIMAL MODEL OF TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY WITH CLASSIC HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS
… exhibiting a characteristic pattern of hippocampal neuron loss called "classic hippocampal sclerosis." No single injury has reproduced this extensive neuron loss experimentally, suggesting that hippocampal sclerosis may be an "endstage" pathology caused by an initial insult plus years of …
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Executive Function in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: Can markers of disease severity and psychological factors differentiate types of cognitive impairment?
… seizure duration, seizure frequency, and hippocampal sclerosis to determine whether each of these clinical variables uniquely contributes to performance on executive abilities in TLE. The second aim of the current study was to examine the effects of depression and sleepiness on executive …
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Memory Performance in Children with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: Neocortical vs. Dual Pathologies
… lobe epilepsy and the ability to discern hippocampal dysfunction with conventional memory tests that are typically used to detect more global memory impairment. All data was obtained retrospectively from the epilepsy surgery program at a local children’s hospital. The research population …
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Health technology assessment for levetiracetam in the treatment of newly diagnosed epilepsy in the South African Public Health Sector
… including head injuries, vascular insults, hippocampal sclerosis, cortical dysgenesis, drug or alcohol abuse and infectious diseases, such as neurocysticercosis and HIV/AIDS. Causes in South Africa are likely to be infectious due to the high HIV and tuberculosis prevalence. The condition has …