Analysis of EEC data from weak-field magnetic stimulation of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy patients

Brain Research

Volumn 868, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 386-391

  Dobson, Jon ^a   St Pierre, Timothy G ^b   Schultheiss Grassi, Paola P ^c   Gregor Wieser, H ^d   Kuster, Niels ^e  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Epileptiform activity; Hippocampus; Magnetic stimulation; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETICS;

EID: 0034705650     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(00)02422-7     Document Type: Article

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