Cortical triggers in generalized reflex seizures and epilepsies

Brain

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 700-710

  Ferlazzo, Edoardo ^a,c   Zifkin, Benjamin G ^b   Andermann, Eva ^a   Andermann, Frederick ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cortical hyperexcitability; Idiopathic generalized epilepsy; Reflex seizures; Review

Indexed keywords

BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CORTICOCORTICAL TRACT; CORTICORETICULAR TRACT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NERVE TRACT; NOISE; PATTERN STIMULATION; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; SENSORY STIMULATION; TOUCH; BRAIN CORTEX; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; READING; REFLEX EPILEPSY; SEIZURE;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; EPILEPSY, REFLEX; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; SEIZURES;

EID: 16844370304     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh446     Document Type: Review

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