A case of pathological excitability located with navigated-TMS: Presurgical evaluation of focal neocortical epilepsy

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 379-385

  Schmidt, Sein ^a   Holst, Eric ^a   Irlbacher, Kerstin ^a   Oltmanns, Frank ^b   Merschhemke, Martin ^b   Brandt, Stephan A ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Königin Elisabeth Herzberge Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

cortical excitability; Focal epilepsy; motor evoked potential; navigated brain stimulation; preoperative evaluation; transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM; ETIRACETAM; VALPROIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE REPORT; CHILD; EPILEPTIC STATE; EVALUATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

CHILD; EPILEPSIA PARTIALIS CONTINUA; EPILEPSY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONAVIGATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 77954726288     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-2010-0540     Document Type: Article

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