VNS in patients with previous unsuccessful resective epilepsy surgery: Antiepileptic and psychotropic effects

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 117-121

  Koutroumanidis, Michael ^a,b   Binnie, C D ^a   Hennessy, M J ^a   Alarcon, G ^a   Elwes, R D C ^a   Toone, B K ^a   Chandler, C ^a   Selway, R ^a   Polkey, C E ^a   O'Connor, S A ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complex partial seizures; Depression; Post ictal psychosis; Resective epilepsy surgery; Vagus nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN SURGERY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PSYCHOSIS; REMISSION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TELEMETRY; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNITED KINGDOM; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, COMPLEX PARTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0037291102     PISSN: 00016314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0404.2003.01211.x     Document Type: Article

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