Hippocampal involvement in secondarily generalised seizures of extrahippocampal origin

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 924-929

  Surges, R ^a,b   Schulze Bonhage, A ^a   Altenmuller D M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALA; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, COMPLEX PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 48249095486     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2007.129387     Document Type: Article

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