Epilepsy

CONTINUUM Lifelong Learning in Neurology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 37-66

  Herzog, Andrew G ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOMIFENE; ENDORPHIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; FLUNITRAZEPAM; FOLLITROPIN; GESTAGEN; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; LAMOTRIGINE; LEUPRORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; NORETHISTERONE; PENTOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PRASTERONE SULFATE; PREGNENOLONE SULFATE; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AMENORRHEA; ANOVULATION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BREAKTHROUGH BLEEDING; BREAST TENDERNESS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CATAMENIAL EPILEPSY; CONSTIPATION; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EARLY MENOPAUSE; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENDOCRINE GLAND; EPILEPSY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; GYNECOMASTIA; HIRSUTISM; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERANDROGENISM; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMPOTENCE; LIBIDO DISORDER; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LIVER; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE INFERTILITY; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MENTAL STRESS; MIGRAINE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMENORRHEA; ONSET AGE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; OVULATION; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT; STRESS; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT DURATION; VAGINA BLEEDING; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 77949589310     PISSN: 10802371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.CON.0000300023.30532.d3     Document Type: Article

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