Neurostimulators in epilepsy

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 315-319

  Salanova, Vicenta ^a   Worth, Robert ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPRESSION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; THALAMUS;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SEIZURES; THALAMUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34547131834     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-007-0048-9     Document Type: Review

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