Epilepsy Research
Volume 24, Issue 3 , Pages 147-161 , July 1996

Bilateral medial temporal lobe damage without amnesic syndrome: a case report

  • Katharina Henke

      Affiliations

    • Center for Neuroscience, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, USA
    • ,
  • Heinz Gregor Wieser

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +41 (1) 255 5530; fax: +41 (1) 255 4429.
    • Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland

Received 5 October 1995 ,Revised 15 December 1995 ,Accepted 10 January 1996.

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