Evaluating the feasibility of measures of motor threshold and cortical silent period as predictors of outcome after temporal lobe epilepsy surgery

Seizure

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 775-778

  Karada, Ömer ^a   Ipekdal, H Lker ^b   Erdoan, Ersin ^c   Gökil, Zeki ^a   Odabai, Zeki ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b NEAR EAST UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UFUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cortical excitability; Cortical silent period; Motor threshold; Temporal lobe epilepsy surgery

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; ETIRACETAM; OXCARBAZEPINE; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICAL SILENT PERIOD; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR THRESHOLD; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 81255136079     PISSN: 10591311     EISSN: 15322688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2011.07.009     Document Type: Article

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