Reflex seizures and reflex epilepsies: Old models for understanding mechanisms of epileptogenesis

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 100, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 1-11

  Striano, Salvatore ^a   Coppola, Antonietta ^a   del Gaudio, Luigi ^a   Striano, Pasquale ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cortical triggers; Epilepsy; Neuroimaging; Reflex epilepsy; Reflex seizures

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MALFORMATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EATING INDUCED SEIZURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HOT WATER EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSICOGENIC EPILEPSY; NERVE CONDUCTION; PHOTOSENSITIVE EPILEPSY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIMARY READING EPILEPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX EPILEPSY; REVIEW; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; STARTLE EPILEPSY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY, REFLEX; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; SEIZURES;

EID: 84861529965     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: 18726844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2012.01.013     Document Type: Review

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