Augmentation of cognitive function in epilepsy
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Augmentation of cognitive function in epilepsy
Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders in humans afflicting more than 1% of the population and 65 million people worldwide (England et al., 2012). The most common form of acquired epilepsy is temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), and over 30% of patients with TLE have seizures that are refractory to commonly used anticonvulsant drugs (Bauer and Burr, 2001). Mesial temporal lobe scler...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1662-5137
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00147