The assessment of consciousness during partial seizures

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 98-102

  Ali, Fizzah ^a   Rickards, Hugh ^a   Cavanna, Andrea E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment; Complex partial seizures; Consciousness; Epilepsy; Responsiveness; Simple partial seizures

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONSCIOUSNESS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROSCIENCE; REVIEW; SIMPLE PARTIAL SEIZURE;

CONSCIOUSNESS; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; SEIZURES; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 84856789675     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2011.11.021     Document Type: Review

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