Deep Brain Stimulation for Epilepsy

Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 59-67

  Halpern, Casey H ^a   Samadani, Uzma ^a   Litt, Brian ^a   Jaggi, Jurg L ^a   Baltuch, Gordon H ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

closed loop systems; Deep brain stimulation; epilepsy; seizure; thalamus

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN SURGERY; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM; CLOSED LOOP SYSTEM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETHARGY; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; OPEN LOOP SYSTEM; PARANOIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; THALAMUS; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; EPILEPSY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS;

EID: 37349107059     PISSN: 19337213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nurt.2007.10.065     Document Type: Article

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