Reflex seizures in Rett syndrome

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 389-393

  Martínez, Ana Roche ^a   Colmenero, M Itziar Alonso ^b   Pereira, Andreia Gomes ^a   Vilaplana, Francesc X Sanmartí ^b   Morón, Judith Armstrong ^c   Marfa, Mercé Pineda ^a  

^a HOSPITAL SANT JOAN DE DÉU   (Spain)

^b Clinical Neurophysiology Unit   (Spain)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE ENFERMEDADES RARAS CIBERER   (Spain)

Author keywords

Eating seizures; Proprioception seizures; Reflex seizures; Rett syndrome

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLAVULANIC ACID; ETHOSUXIMIDE; ETIRACETAM; VALPROIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; ATONIC SEIZURE; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOOD INTAKE; GENE MUTATION; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; INFANTILE SPASM; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MULTICHANNEL RECORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; REFLEX EPILEPSY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RETT SYNDROME; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TONIC SEIZURE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTICONVULSANTS; EATING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, REFLEX; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; METHYL-CPG-BINDING PROTEIN 2; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROPRIOCEPTION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RETT SYNDROME; SEIZURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857891880     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: 19506945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/epd.2011.0475     Document Type: Article

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