Unilateral hand automatisms in temporal lobe epilepsy

Seizure

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 393-396

  Janszky, J ^a,b   Fogarasi, A ^a,c   Magalova, V ^a   Gyimesi, C ^a,b   Kovacs N ^b   Schulz, R ^a   Ebner, A ^a  

^a EPILEPSY CENTER BETHEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^c Bethesda Children's Hospital   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Hand automatism; Lateralising signs; Temporal lobe epilepsy; Video EEG

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AUTOMATISM; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSTONIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; HAND DISEASE; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VIDEORECORDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTOMATISM; DYSTONIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 33746899757     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2006.05.002     Document Type: Article

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