Ictal singing: Case report and reappraisal of the literature

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 113-118

  Bentes, Carla ^a,b   Pimentel, José ^b   Costa, João ^a   Santos, Rosa ^a   Rolo, Vasco ^a  

^a EEG/Sleep Laboratory

^b HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Ictal semiology; Ictal singing; Video EEG monitoring

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HAND MOVEMENT; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MUSIC; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SINGING;

ADULT; BASAL GANGLIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUSIC; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEIZURES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 46949102934     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2008.0185     Document Type: Article

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