Daytime vigilance and quality of life in epileptic patients treated with vagus nerve stimulation

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 185-191

  Galli, Renato ^a   Bonanni, Enrica ^a   Pizzanelli, Chiara ^a   Maestri, Michelangelo ^a   Lutzemberger, Ludovico ^a   Giorgi, Filippo Sean ^a   Iudice, Alfonso ^a   Murri, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Quality of life; Sleepines; Vagus nerve stimulation; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REACTION TIME; RESPONSE TIME; SCORING SYSTEM; SLEEP; SOMNOLENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VISION TEST; WELLBEING; AROUSAL; BRAIN CORTEX; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; HOSPITALIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VAGUS NERVE; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; AROUSAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REACTION TIME; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VAGUS NERVE; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0037968507     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1525-5050(03)00003-9     Document Type: Article

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