Mechanisms of disease: Epilepsy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 349, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 1257-1266

  Chang, Bernard S ^a   Lowenstein, Daniel H ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; GENE MUTATION; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; BRAIN CORTEX; CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GLIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCLEROSIS; THALAMUS;

ION CHANNEL;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; NEUROGLIA; SCLEROSIS; THALAMUS;

EID: 0141684964     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra022308     Document Type: Review

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