Increased cortical hyperexcitability and exaggerated myoclonus with aging in benign adult familial myoclonus epilepsy

Movement Disorders

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1509-1514

  Hitomi, Takefumi ^a   Ikeda, Akio ^a   Kondo, Takayuki ^a   Imamura, Hisaji ^a   Inouchi, Morito ^a   Matsumoto, Riki ^a   Terada, Kiyohito ^b   Kanda, Masutaro ^c   Matsuhashi, Masao ^d   Nagamine, Takashi ^d   Shibasaki, Hiroshi ^c   Takahashi, Ryosuke ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA INSTITUTE OF EPILEPSY AND NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS   (Japan)

^c TAKEDA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Benign adult familial myoclonus epilepsy; Cortical myoclonic tremor; Giant somatosensory evoked potential

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; DIAZEPAM; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCLONUS; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCLONUS; REACTION TIME; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 79960618279     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.23653     Document Type: Article

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