Is a cortical spike discharge "transferred" to the contralateral cortex via the corpus callosum?: An intraoperative observation of electrocorticogram and callosal compound action potentials

Epilepsia

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1536-1542

  Ono, Tomonori ^a   Matsuo, Atsuko ^b   Baba, Hiroshi ^c   Ono, Kenji ^d  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Nagasaki Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION NAGASAKI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^d Yokoo Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bilateral synchrony; Callosotomy; Corpus callosum; Electrocorticogram; Epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE; SPIKE WAVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0036893980     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2002.13402.x     Document Type: Article

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