Absence Seizures and the Frontal Lobe

Clinical EEG and Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 153-156

  Pavone, Antonino ^a   Niedermeyer, E ^b  

^a GARIBALDI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

3 sec; Absence Seizures; Frontal Lobe; Prefrontal Area; Spike waves; Working Memory

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; ARTICLE; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; AWARENESS; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0033942567     PISSN: 15500594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/155005940003100309     Document Type: Article

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