Magnetoencephalographic analysis of cortical myoclonic jerks

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 141-148

  Uesaka, Yoshikazu ^a   Terao, Yasuo ^a   Ugawa, Yoshikazu ^a   Yumoto, Masato ^b   Hanajima, Ritsuko ^a   Kanazawa, Ichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cortical myoclonus; Magnetoencephalography; Pre myoclonus spike

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MOTOR CORTEX; MYOCLONUS; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE;

EID: 0030222074     PISSN: 00134694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0013-4694(96)95209-8     Document Type: Article

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