Genital automatisms: A video-EEG study in patients with medically refractory seizures

Epilepsia

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 777-780

  Dobesberger, Judith ^a   Walser, Gerald ^a   Unterberger, Iris ^a   Embacher, Norbert ^a   Luef, Gerhard ^a   Bauer, Gerhard ^a   Benke, Thomas ^a   Bartha, Lisa ^a   Ulmer, Hanno ^b   Ortler, Martin ^b   Trinka, Eugen ^a  

^a Universitatsklinik fur Neurochirurgie Innsbruck   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Genital automatisms; Presurgical epilepsy evaluation; Sexual seizure symptoms; Video EEG seizures

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; AUTOMATISM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENITAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; URGE INCONTINENCE; VIDEORECORDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; AUSTRIA; AUTOMATISM; BRAIN MAPPING; COMORBIDITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENITALIA; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SEXUALITY; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 3042854424     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2004.44003.x     Document Type: Article

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