Focal and generalized EEG paroxysms in childhood absence epilepsy: Topographic associations and distinctive behaviors during the first cycle of non-REM sleep

Epilepsia

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 840-849

  Koutroumanidis, Michalis ^a   Tsiptsios, Dimitrios ^a   Kokkinos, Vasileios ^a,b   Kostopoulos, George K ^b  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cycling alternating pattern; Focal spikes; Frontal absences; Idiopathic generalized epilepsy; Sleep EEG; Spike wave discharges

Indexed keywords

ETHOSUXIMIDE; LAMOTRIGINE; VALPROIC ACID;

ALERTNESS; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILDHOOD ABSENCE EPILEPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; FOCAL SPIKE WAVE DISCHARGE; GENERALIZED SPIKE WAVE DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; MALE; NONREM SLEEP; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPIKE WAVE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VIDEORECORDING;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN WAVES; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PARASOMNIAS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SLEEP, REM; VIDEO RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860669505     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2012.03424.x     Document Type: Article

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