Hemispheric asymmetry of callosal neuronal participation in bilaterally synchronous epileptiform discharges

Seizure

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 7-13

  Ono, Tomonori ^a   Baba, Hiroshi ^a   Toda, Keisuke ^a   Ono, Kenji ^b  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION NAGASAKI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b Yokoo Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bilateral synchrony; Callosotomy; Corpus callosum; Electrocorticogram; Epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN SURGERY; CALLOSAL COMPOUND ACTION POTENTIAL; CALLOSOTOMY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NERVE CELL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57549083097     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2008.05.005     Document Type: Article

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