Typical absence seizures triggered by photosensitivity

Epilepsia

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 159-163

  Baykan, Betül ^a   Matur, Zeliha ^a   Gürses, Candan ^a   Aykutlu, Ebru ^a   Gökyiǧit, Ayşen ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Absence seizure; Epilepsy; Photosensitivity

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ABSENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; MALE; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VIDEORECORDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AMBULATORY CARE; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EPILEPSY, REFLEX; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 13144253080     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2005.67303.x     Document Type: Article

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