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Epilepsy Research and Treatment
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 204693, 18 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/204693
Review Article
Role of Electroencephalography in Presurgical Evaluation of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
1Department of Neurology, Vikram Hospital, Bangalore 560052, India
2Departments of Clinical Neurological Sciences, Medical Imaging, Medical Biophysics, and Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London,
ON,
N6A 5A5, Canada
Received 5 September 2011; Revised 18 January 2012; Accepted 28 June 2012
Academic Editor: Warren T. Blume
Copyright © 2012 Seetharam Raghavendra et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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