Impaired consciousness during temporal lobe seizures is related to increased long-distance corticalsubcortical synchronization

Brain

Volumn 132, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2091-2101

  Arthuis, Marie ^a   Valton, Luc ^b   Rgis, Jean ^a,c   Chauvel, Patrick ^a,b,c   Wendling, Fabrice ^a,d   Naccache, Lionel ^e   Bernard, Christophe ^a,c   Bartolomei, Fabrice ^a,b,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^e GHU Paris Psychiatrie et Neurosciences   (France)

Author keywords

Consciousness; EEG; Global workspace; Synchrony; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 67749084371     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awp086     Document Type: Article

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