Attentional disorders in patients with complex partial epilepsy
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Attentional disorders in patients with complex partial epilepsy.
UNLABELLED A study of concentrated attention patterns in epileptic patients was conducted with the objectives: characterization of the patients' epileptic condition; assessment of the concentrated attention levels in epileptic and nonepileptic individuals; comparison of the attention levels of the two groups. An evaluation was performed of 50 adult outpatients with complex partial seizures and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0004-282X
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-282x2003000300003