Distinguishing childhood absence epilepsy patients from controls by the analysis of their background brain electrical activity

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 461-468

  Rosso, Osvaldo A ^a,b   Mendes, Alexandre ^a   Rostas, John A ^c   Hunter, Mick ^c   Moscato, Pablo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTO DE CÁLCULO   (Argentina)

^c HUNTER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Background; Classification; EEG

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; ARTICLE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; DISEASE MARKER; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; PILOT STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTRODES; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 58249112142     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.10.017     Document Type: Article

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