Eating seizures and emotional facial paresis: Evidence suggesting the amygdala is a common anatomophysiological substratum

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 266-269

  Guimarães, Joana ^a   Simoes Ribeiro F ^a   Mendes Ribeiro, J A ^a   Abreu, Pedro ^a   Pires, Isabel ^a   Sousa, Georgina ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE SÃO JOÃO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Eating epilepsy; Emotional facial paresis; Sleep paroxysmal microarousals; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EATING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACE ASYMMETRY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; SLEEP PARAMETERS; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; EATING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FACIAL PARALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; SLEEP; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 13844266351     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2004.11.016     Document Type: Article

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