title: [Pre-operative assessment of language and memory using functional magnetic resonance imaging techniques in patients with refractory epilepsy].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Functional magnetic resonance imaging is a non-invasive technique that provides relevant information in the presurgical evaluation of patients with refractory temporal lobe epilepsy by means of cognitive eloquent areas mapping.
  
  
  METHODS
  Our objective is to present a presurgical evaluation protocol that includes memory and language tasks. Language evaluation was based on a verbal generation and a verbal fluency task, whereas memory evaluation was done by the scene encoding and home walk paradigms.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Psicología Básica, Clínica y Psicobiología, UniversitatJaume I. Castellón de la Plana. asanjuan@psb.uji.es
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sanjuan
authors.forename: V E
authors.initials: VE
authors.lastname: Villanueva
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Avila
mesh_terms: D004351:Drug Resistance; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008568:Memory; D011300:Preoperative Care