Clonic convulsion caused by epileptic discharges arising from the human supplementary motor area as studied by subdural recording

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 21-26

  Ikeda, Akio ^a   Nagamine, Takashi ^a   Kunieda, Takeharu ^a   Yazawa, Shogo ^a   Ohara, Shinji ^a   Taki, Waro ^a   Kimura, Jun ^a   Shibasaki, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

EMG discharges; Epilepsy; Subdural recording; Supplementary motor area; Tonic convulsion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE REPORT; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INNERVATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MONITORING; MOTOR CORTEX; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0033085995     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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