A study of spike-density on EEG in West syndrome

Brain and Development

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 105-112

  Oka, Makio ^a   Kobayashi, Katsuhiro ^a   Akiyama, Tomoyuki ^a   Ogino, Tatsuya ^a   Oka, Eiji ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Digital filter; EEG; Hypsarrhythmia; Spasms; Spike; West syndrome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN MATURATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DIGITAL FILTERING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; HYPSARRHYTHMIA; INFANCY; INFANT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; SPIKE; WEST SYNDROME;

EID: 1242272175     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0387-7604(03)00101-3     Document Type: Article

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