Migraine with visual aura and photosensitive epileptic seizures

Epilepsia

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1032-1034

  Donnet, Anne ^a,c   Bartolomei, F ^b  

^a Neurosurgery Department   (France)

^b CENTRE SAINT PAUL   (France)

^c TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Dopaminergic failure; Epilepsy; Intermittent photic stimulation; Migraine; Photoparoxysmal response; Spreading depression

Indexed keywords

VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC AURA; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRAINE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SLEEP; SPIKE WAVE; SPREADING CORTICAL DEPRESSION; STROBOSCOPY;

ADULT; COMORBIDITY; CORTICAL SPREADING DEPRESSION; DOPAMINE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MALE; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SCOTOMA; SPREADING CORTICAL DEPRESSION; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 0030803807     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1997.tb01487.x     Document Type: Article

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