Eating epilepsy characterized by periodic spasms

Neuropediatrics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 294-297

  Nakazawa, C ^a   Fujimoto, Shinji ^a   Watanabe, M ^b   Tanaka, M ^b   Kageyama, M ^b   Ishikawa, T ^a   Watanabe, Y ^b  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA INSTITUTE OF EPILEPSY AND NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eating Epilepsy; EEG Video Monitoring; Magnetoencephalography; Periodic Spasms; Reflex Epilepsy

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOBAZAM; CLONAZEPAM; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID; ZONISAMIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EATING; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MUSCLE SPASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SLOW BRAIN WAVE;

ADOLESCENT; ALPHA RHYTHM; CHILD; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; EPILEPSY, REFLEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; OCCIPITAL LOBE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPASM; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0036996967     PISSN: 0174304X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-37080     Document Type: Article

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