Understanding juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: Contributions from neuroimaging

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 127-137

  Anderson, Joseph ^a   Hamandi, Khalid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Frontal lobe; JME; MRI; MRS; PET; SPECT

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; JUVENILE MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

BRAIN; HUMANS; MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY, JUVENILE; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 79955523519     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2011.03.008     Document Type: Review

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