Vagus nerve stimulation use and effect in epilepsy: What have we learned?

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 127-136

  Tecoma, Evelyn S ^a,b   Iragui, Vicente J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse events; Epilepsy; Indications; Parameters; Seizures; Vagus nerve stimulation; VNS

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; TOPIRAMATE;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPRESSION; DISEASE DURATION; DYSPNEA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FATALITY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPOCAPNIA; MOOD DISORDER; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PSYCHOSIS; SEIZURE; SKULL SURGERY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

AGE OF ONSET; ANTICONVULSANTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; HUMANS; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 30844469280     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2005.09.006     Document Type: Article

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