Can infant eye closure during paroxysmal events help differentiate nonepileptic activity from seizures?

Nature Clinical Practice Neurology

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 240-241

  Mizrahi, Eli M ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Epileptic seizures; Eye closure; Eye opening; Paroxysmal events

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DROWSINESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EYELID CLOSURE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; MUSCLE SPASM; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SHORT SURVEY; SLEEP; VIDEORECORDING; WAKEFULNESS; WEST SYNDROME;

EID: 33646240597     PISSN: 1745834X     EISSN: 17458358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneuro0156     Document Type: Short Survey

References (2)

1. Commission on Classification and Terminology of the International League Against Epilepsy (1989) Proposal for revised clinical and electroencephalographic classification of epilepsies and epileptic syndromes. Epilepsia 30: 389-399
2. Nordli DR Jr et al. (2001) The ontogeny of partial seizures in infants and young children. Epilepsia 42: 986-990