Nose Wiping: An Unrecognized Automatism in Absence Seizures

Clinical EEG and Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 157-159

  Baykan, Betül ^a   Gürses, Candan ^a   Gökyigit, Ayslen ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Absence Seizure; Automatism; Epilepsy; Nose Wiping

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; ETHOSUXIMIDE; VALPROIC ACID;

ABSENCE; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATISM; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; AUTOMATISM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL LOBE; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 0343081111     PISSN: 15500594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/155005940003100310     Document Type: Article

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