The variants of reading epilepsy. A clinical and video-EEG study of 17 patients with reading-induced seizures

Brain

Volumn 121, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1409-1427

  Koutroumanidis, Michael ^a   Koepp, Matthias J ^b   Richardson, Mark P ^b   Camfield, Carol ^c   Agathonikou, Alex ^a   Ried, Sybille ^d   Papadimitriou, Alex ^e   Plant, Gordon T ^b   Duncan, John S ^b   Panayiotopoulos, Chrysostomos P ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c IWK Children's Hospital   (Canada)

^d SWISS EPILEPSY CENTER   (Switzerland)

^e RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

EEG; Myoclonus; Network hyperexcitability; Paroxysmal dyslexia; Reading epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALEXIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NIGHT SLEEP; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SEX RATIO; SIBLING; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

EID: 17344383390     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/121.8.1409     Document Type: Article

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