Gelastic seizures and the anteromesial frontal lobe: A case report and review of intracranial EEG recording and electrocortical stimulation case studies

Epilepsia

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2195-2198

  Unnwongse, Kanjana ^a,b   Wehner, Tim ^a,c   Bingaman, William ^a   Foldvary Schaefer, Nancy ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PRASAT NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Thailand)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electrocortical stimulation; Frontal lobe; Gelastic seizure; Intracranial EEG recording

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN SURGERY; BREECH PRESENTATION; CASE REPORT; CINGULATE GYRUS; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DELIVERY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPTIC STATE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FRONTAL LOBE; GELASTIC SEIZURE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SLEEP; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAKEFULNESS;

AGED; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; LAUGHTER; MALE; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 78649233902     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02548.x     Document Type: Article

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