Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and idiopathic photosensitive occipital lobe epilepsy: Is there overlap?

Brain

Volumn 127, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1878-1886

  Taylor, Isabella ^a   Marini, Carla ^a   Johnson, Michael R ^d   Turner, Samantha ^a   Berkovic, Samuel F ^a,b   Scheffer, Ingrid E ^a,b,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Genetic; Myoclonic; Occipital; Photosensitive

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MYOCLONUS; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ONSET AGE; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSENSITIVE EPILEPSY; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPILEPSY, REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY, JUVENILE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 4043067951     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh211     Document Type: Article

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