Video-EEG evidence of lateralized clinical features in primary generalized epilepsy with tonic-clonic seizures

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 149-156

  Casaubon, Leanne ^a   Pohlmann Eden, Bernd ^a   Khosravani, Houman ^a   Carlen, Peter L ^a   Wennberg, Richard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clinical semiology; Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy; Lateralization; Primary generalized epilepsy

Indexed keywords

LAMOTRIGINE; PHENOBARBITAL; VALPROIC ACID;

ADOLESCENCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HEAD; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; STEREOTYPY; TRUNK; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEIZURES;

EID: 0344013538     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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