Cortical excitability in juvenile myoclonic epileptic patients and their asymptomatic siblings: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study

Seizure

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 387-391

  Akgun, Yasemin ^a   Soysal, Aysun ^a   Atakli, Dilek ^a   Yuksel, Burcu ^a   Dayan, Cengiz ^a   Arpaci, Baki ^a  

^a Bakirkoy Research and Training Hospital for Psychiatry Neurology and Neurosurgery   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cortical excitability changes; Cortical silent period; Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy; Motor threshold; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

LAMOTRIGINE; PHENOBARBITAL; VALPROIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JUVENILE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SEIZURE; SIBLING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY, JUVENILE; SIBLINGS; SPREADING CORTICAL DEPRESSION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349192270     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2009.02.002     Document Type: Article

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