Primary (Idiopathic) Generalized Epilepsy and Underlying Mechanisms

Clinical EEG and Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-21

  Niedermeyer, E ^a  

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Author keywords

Arousal (role in primary generalized epilepsy); Primary Generalization; Primary Generalized Epilepsy; Secondary Bilateral Synchrony; Spike wave complexes

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; ETHOSUXIMIDE; LAMOTRIGINE; OXAZOLIDINEDIONE DERIVATIVE; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID;

ABSENCE; AROUSAL; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FATIGUE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; PHOTOSENSITIVE EPILEPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP SPINDLE; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMUS; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PONS; THALAMUS;

EID: 0030062520     PISSN: 15500594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/155005949602700103     Document Type: Article

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