Approach to seizures, epilepsies, and epilepsy syndromes

Sleep Medicine Clinics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 59-73

  Vendrame, Martina ^a   Loddenkemper, Tobias ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Epilepsy syndromes; Semiology of seizures

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY SYNDROME; EPILEPTIC AURA; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; JUVENILE MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY; LABORATORY TEST; LANDAU KLEFFNER SYNDROME; MEDICAL HISTORY; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NEUROIMAGING; PANAYIOTOPOULOS SYNDROME; PANIC; PARASOMNIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOGENIC NONEPILEPTIC SEIZURE; REM SLEEP; SEIZURE; SEIZURE, EPILEPSY AND CONVULSION; SPIKE; SYMPTOM;

EID: 84857818159     PISSN: 1556407X     EISSN: 15564088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsmc.2012.01.006     Document Type: Review

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