Basal ganglia involvement in rotational seizures

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 107-112

  Vercueil, Laurent ^a,c,d   Kahane, Philippe ^b   Francois Joubert, Anne ^b   Hirsch, Edouard ^a,c   Hoffmann, Dominique ^b   Depaulis, Antoine ^c   Marescaux, Christian ^a,c  

^a Strasbourg Hospital   (France)

^b GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d HÔPITAL CIVIL   (France)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Putamen; Volvular epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE TRACT; ORIENTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; ROTATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STEREOTYPY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ORIENTATION; ROTATION; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0033139482     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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