Mirthful gelastic seizures with ictal involvement of temporobasal regions

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 82-86

  Oehl, Bernhard ^a   Biethahn, Silke ^a   Schulze Bonhage, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gelastic seizures; Ictal laughter; Intracranial EEG; Invasive recordings; Right temporal origin; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

ETIRACETAM; LAMOTRIGINE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PHENYTOIN;

ADULT; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; GELASTIC SEIZURE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; BRAIN DISEASES; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LAUGHTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65349118127     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: 19506945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2009.0245     Document Type: Note

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