Temporal lobe epilepsy is a disease of faulty neuronal resonators rather than oscillators, and all seizures are provoked, usually by stress

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1284-1289

  Eggers, Arnold E ^a  

^a SUNY Downstate Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ETHOSUXIMIDE; MOOD STABILIZER; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRIMETHADIONE; VALPROIC ACID;

ABSENCE; ACTION POTENTIAL; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; DENTATE GYRUS; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATOR; PACEMAKER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SENSORY STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANTICONVULSANTS; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; ETHOSUXIMIDE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEURONS; OSCILLOMETRY; SEIZURES; STRESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 35449001665     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2007.03.025     Document Type: Article

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