Bilateral spike-and-wave discharges in a hemi-deafferented cortex

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 113, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1970-1972

  Inghilleri, M ^a   Clemenzi, A ^a   Conte, A ^a   Frasca, V ^a   Manfredi, M ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Absence status; Spike and wave; Thalamus; Top of the basilar syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; TICLOPIDINE; VALPROIC ACID;

ABSENCE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGED; ANTICONVULSANTS; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; OCCIPITAL LOBE;

EID: 0036897983     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(02)00294-8     Document Type: Article

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