Are "generalized" seizures truly generalized? Evidence of localized mesial frontal and frontopolar discharges in absence

Epilepsia

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1568-1579

  Holmes, Mark D ^a,c   Brown, Micah ^b   Tucker, Don M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Absence seizures; Cerebral cortex; Dipole; EEG; Source analysis; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SPIKE WAVE;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 10644277882     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2004.23204.x     Document Type: Article

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