Electrophysiological characterization of spontaneous and carbamazepine-induced epileptic negative myoclonus in benign childhood epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 50-58

  Parmeggiani, Lucio ^a   Seri, Stefano ^b   Bonanni, Paolo ^a   Guerrini, Renzo ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes; Carbamazepine; Jerk locked averaging; Negative myoclonus; Segmentation; Topographic analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; PHENOBARBITAL; VALPROIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CASE REPORT; CLONUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTRONEUROLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERSALIVATION; MALE; MYOCLONUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROLANDIC EPILEPSY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH DISORDER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0346729740     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(03)00327-4     Document Type: Article

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