Complex visual hallucinations as post-ictal cortical release phenomena

Neurocase

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 107-110

  Josephson, S Andrew ^a   Kirsch, Heidi E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Neurology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CLONAZEPAM; ETIRACETAM; FOSPHENYTOIN SODIUM; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLUCOSE ASSAY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MYOPIA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POST ICTAL CORTICAL RELEASE PHENOMENA; REVIEW; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 33744732399     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554790500519722     Document Type: Review

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