Connectivity of the supplementary motor area in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and frontal lobe epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 507-514

  Vulliemoz, Serge ^a,b   Vollmar, Christian ^a   Koepp, Matthias J ^a   Yogarajah, Mahinda ^a   O'Muircheartaigh, Jonathan ^c   Carmichael, David W ^a   Stretton, Jason ^a   Richardson, Mark P ^c   Symms, Mark R ^a   Duncan, John S ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Frontal lobe epilepsy; Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy; Supplementary motor area; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY, JUVENILE; NERVE NET; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 79952547352     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02770.x     Document Type: Article

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