Cortical and subcortical networks in human secondarily generalized tonicclonic seizures

Brain

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 999-1012

  Blumenfeld, H ^a   Varghese, G I ^a   Purcaro, M J ^a   Motelow, J E ^a   Enev, M ^a   McNally, K A ^a   Levin, A R ^a   Hirsch, L J ^b   Tikofsky, R ^b   Zubal, I G ^a   Paige, A L ^c   Spencer, S S ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^c The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Default mode; Epilepsy; SPECT; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BASAL GANGLION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MESENCEPHALON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

BASAL GANGLIA; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE NET; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 63849326124     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awp028     Document Type: Article

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