Cortical sensorimotor alterations in Unverricht-Lundborg disease patients without generalized seizures

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 323, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 101-104

  Silén, Teija ^a   Karjalainen, Tero ^b   Lehesjoki, Anna Elina ^c   Forss, Nina ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Generalized tonic clonic seizures; Hyperexcitability; Magnetoencephalography; Progressive myoclonus epilepsy; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM; PIRACETAM; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NERVE STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYMPTOM; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR CORTEX; SEIZURES; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; UNVERRICHT-LUNDBORG SYNDROME;

EID: 0037177487     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)00013-7     Document Type: Article

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