Epilepsy and the Consciousness System: Transient Vegetative State?

Neurologic Clinics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 801-823

  Blumenfeld, Hal ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Absence seizures; Complex partial seizures; Consciousness; FMRI; Generalized tonic clonic seizures; Seizures; Temporal lobe epilepsy; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; AMNESIA; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; EPILEPSY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOREBRAIN; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PETIT MAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 80055105835     PISSN: 07338619     EISSN: 15579875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ncl.2011.07.014     Document Type: Review

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