Epileptic discharges and phasic sleep phenomena in patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2434-2445

  Bonakis, Anastasios ^a   Koutroumanidis, Michalis ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arousal responses; CAP; Epileptic K complexes; JME; Sleep EEG; Spike wave discharges

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; ETIRACETAM; LAMOTRIGINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID;

ABSENCE; ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP TIME; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AROUSAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY, JUVENILE; SEIZURES; SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP DISORDERS; SLEEP STAGES; VIDEO RECORDING; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 70350356258     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2009.02110.x     Document Type: Article

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