Frontal lobe epilepsy

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 593-600

  Beleza, Pedro ^a   Pinho, João ^a  

^a Hospital de Braga   (Portugal)

Author keywords

EEG; Frontal lobe epilepsy; Refractory epilepsy; SPECT; Surgery; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ETIRACETAM; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID; ZONISAMIDE;

BRAIN SURGERY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KETOGENIC DIET; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPTOM; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; THETA RHYTHM; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS;

EID: 79953174880     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2010.08.018     Document Type: Review

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