Focal semiologic and electroencephalographic features in patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1668-1676

  Usui, Naotaka ^a   Kotagal, Prakash ^a   Matsumoto, Riki ^a   Kellinghaus, Christoph ^a   Lüders, Hans Otto ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

EEG; Focal features; Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy; Semiology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; JUVENILE MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; MALE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VIDEORECORDING; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; MONITORING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY, JUVENILE; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 27244454776     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2005.00262.x     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Commission on Classification and Terminology of the International League Against Epilepsy. Proposal for revised classification of epilepsies and epileptic syndromes. Epilepsia 1989;30:389-99.
2. Aliberti V, Grunewald RA, Panayiotopoulos CP, et al. Focal electroencephalographic abnormalities in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. Epilepsia 1994;35:297-301.
3. Lancman ME, Asconape JJ, Kiffin Penry J. Clinical and EEG asymmetries in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. Epilepsia 1994;35:302-6.
4. Panayiotopoulos CP, Tahan R, Obeid T. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: factors of error involved in the diagnosis and treatment. Epilepsia 1991;32:672-6.
5. Montalenti E, Imperiale D, Rovera A, et al. Clinical features, EEG findings and diagnostic pitfalls in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: a series of 63 patients. J Neurol Sci 2001;184:65-70.
6. Lüders H, Acharya J, Baumgartner C, et al. Semiological seizure classification. Epilepsia 1998;39:1006-13.
7. Kotagal P, Bleasel A, Geller E, et al. Lateralizing value of asymmetric tonic limb posturing observed in secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures. Epilepsia 2000;41:457-62.
8. Wyllie E, Lüders H, Morris HH, et al. The lateralizing significance of versive head and eye movements during epileptic seizures. Neurology 1986;36:606-11.
9. Janz D. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. In:Dam M, Gram L, eds. Comprehensive epileptology. New York: Raven Press, 1990:171-85.
10. Dasheiff RM, Ritaccio AL. Characterization of intractable juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: new perspective on primarily generalized seizures. Seizure 1993;2:11-9.
11. Niaz FE, Abou-Khalil B, Fakhoury T. The generalized tonic-clonic seizures in partial versus generalized epilepsy: semiologic differences. Epilepsia 1999;40:1664-6.
12. Lancman ME, Asconape JJ, Golimstok A. Circling seizures in a case of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. Epilepsia 1994;35:317-8.
13. Gastaut H, Aguglia U, Tinuper P. Benign versive or circling epilepsy with bilateral 3-cps spike-and-wave discharges in late childhood. Ann Neurol 1986;19:301-3.
14. Aguglia U, Gambardella A, Le Piane E, et al. Idiopathic generalized epilepsies with versive or circling seizures. Acta Neurol Scand 1999;99:219-24.
15. Oguni H, Mukahira K, Oguni M, et al. Video-polygraphic analysis of myoclonic seizures in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. Epilepsia 1994;35:307-16.
16. Lombroso CT. Consistent EEG focalities detected in subjects with primary generalized epilepsies monitored for two decades. Epilepsia 1997;38:797-812.
17. Meencke HJ, Janz D. The significance of microdysgenesia in primary generalized epilepsy: an answer to the considerations of Lyon and Gastaut. Epilepsia 1985;26:368-71.
18. Harbaugh RE, Wilson DH. Telencephalic theory of generalized epilepsy: observations in split-brain patients. Neurosurgery 1982;10:725-32.
19. Diehl B, Wyllie E, Rothner D, Bingaman W. Worsening seizures after surgery for focal epilepsy due to emergence of primary generalized epilepsy. Neurology 1998;51:1178-80.