Do seizures beget seizures?

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 135, Issue , 2002, Pages 215-219

  Hauser, W Allen ^a,c   Lee, Ju R ^b  

^a Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^b California Medical Review Inc   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONVULSION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036456827     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(02)35021-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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