Benign childhood focal epilepsies: Assessment of established and newly recognized syndromes

Brain

Volumn 131, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2264-2286

  Panayiotopoulos, Chrysostomos P ^a   Michael, Michael ^a   Sanders, Sue ^a   Valeta, Thalia ^a   Koutroumanidis, Michael ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomic seizures; Autonomic status epilepticus; Childhood seizure susceptibility; Ictus emeticus; Migraine, cyclic vomiting syndrome; Occipital epilepsy of Gastaut; Panayiotopoulos syndrome; Rolandic epilepsy; Visual hallucinations

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; ETIRACETAM; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PROTEIN SODIUM CHANNEL VOLTAGE GATED TYPE 1 ALPHA; SODIUM CHANNEL; SULTIAME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BRAIN MATURATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPTIC STATE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HYPERSALIVATION; LANDAU KLEFFNER SYNDROME; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MIGRAINE AURA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANAYIOTOPOULOS SYNDROME; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; ROLANDIC EPILEPSY; SEIZURE; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 50849124789     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awn162     Document Type: Review

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