Seizure semiology: An overview of the 'inverse problem'

European Neurology

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-10

  Rossetti, Andrea O ^a   Kaplan, Peter W ^a,b  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Focal seizures; Ictal manifestations; Lateralization; Localization; Postictal manifestations

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DYSTONIC DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC AURA; EYE MOVEMENT; EYELID MOVEMENT; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEAD MOVEMENT; LIMB MOVEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

BRAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SEIZURES;

EID: 70449650459     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000258634     Document Type: Review

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