Proven startle-provoked epileptic seizures in childhood: Semiologic and electrophysiologic variability

Epilepsia

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1050-1058

  Tibussek, Daniel ^a,b   Wohlrab, Gabriele ^b   Boltshauser, Eugen ^b   Schmitt, Bernhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Children; EEG; Epilepsy; Semiology; Startle

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NEUROIMAGING; NEURORADIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARTLE EPILEPSY; SYMPTOM; TONIC SEIZURE; VIDEORECORDING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; STARTLE REACTION; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 33744487403     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00551.x     Document Type: Article

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