Can patients perform volitional motor acts at the start of a seizure?

Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 141-145

  Block, Allan ^a   Fisher, Robert S ^a,b  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electroencephalography; Epilepsy; Seizures; Warning devices

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC AURA; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, COMPLEX PARTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SEIZURES; VOLITION;

EID: 0032909932     PISSN: 07360258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004691-199903000-00006     Document Type: Article

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