Ictal singing due to left mesial temporal sclerosis

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 173-176

  Kuscu, Demet Yandim ^a   Kayrak, Nalan ^a   Karasu, Aykut ^b   Gul, Gunay ^a   Kirbas, Dursun ^a  

^a Bakirkoy Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Diseases   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Automatisms; Epilepsy; Ictal singing; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; VALPROIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ARM MOVEMENT; AUTOMATISM; CASE REPORT; DANCING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; SINGING; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; AUTOMATISM; BEHAVIOR; DANCING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUSIC; SCLEROSIS; SEIZURES; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 46949110136     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2008.0195     Document Type: Note

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