Familial benign nonprogressive myoclonic epilepsies

Epilepsia

Volumn 50, Issue SUPPL. 5, 2009, Pages 37-40

  Striano, Pasquale ^a   De Falco, Fabrizio A ^b   Minetti, Carlo ^a   Zara, Federico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b Loreto Nuovo Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

ADCME; BAFME; Epilepsy; FIME; Genetics; Myoclonus

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; PHENOBARBITAL; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT ONSET MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT CORTICAL MYOCLONUS AND EPILEPSY; AUTOSOMAL INHERITANCE; BENIGN ADULT FAMILIAL MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY; CHROMOSOME; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTOGENESIS; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FAMILIAL INFANTILE MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEURORADIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; GENOTYPE; HUMANS;

EID: 65549153633     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2009.02118.x     Document Type: Article

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