Gelastic seizures associated with hypothalamic hamartomas. An update in the clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1021-1031

  Téllez Zenteno, José F ^a   Serrano Almeida, Cesar ^b   Moien Afshari, Farzad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Epilepsy surgery; Gelastic seizures; Hypothalamic hamartoma; Intractable epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; CORPUS CALLOSUM TRANSSECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GELASTIC SEIZURE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMIC HAMARTOMAS; HYPOTHALAMUS DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; PALLISTER HALL SYNDROME; PATHOGENESIS; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PSYCHOPATHY; REVIEW; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 60249095716     PISSN: 11766328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/ndt.s2173     Document Type: Review

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