Transitory cognitive impairment with brief generalized spike-wave paroxysm: A clinical counterexample to the three-second rule

Clinical EEG Electroencephalography

Volumn 27, Issue 4 SUPPL., 1996, Pages 215-217

  Mendizabal, Jorge E ^c   Nowack, William J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Consciousness; Electroencephalography; Reaction Time; Seizures; Spike wave Paroxysm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SPIKE WAVE;

ADULT; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENTAL RETARDATION; SEIZURES;

EID: 0029826314     PISSN: 00099155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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