Brain mechanisms of altered conscious states during epileptic seizures

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 267-276

  Cavanna, Andrea Eugenio ^a   Monaco, Francesco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC AURA; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPIKE WAVE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPILEPSY; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONSCIOUSNESS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 68349100328     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2009.38     Document Type: Review

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