Diurnal and sleep/wake patterns of epileptic spasms in different age groups

Epilepsia

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1170-1177

  Ramgopal, Sriram ^a   Shah, Aneri ^a   Zarowski, Marcin ^a,b   Vendrame, Martina ^c   Gregas, Matthew ^a   Alexopoulos, Andreas V ^d   Loddenkemper, Tobias ^a   Kothare, Sanjeev V ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Circadian patterns; Cortical localization; Epilepsy monitoring; Epilepsy semiology; Epileptic spasms; Video EEG use in epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC SPASM; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE;

AGING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SLEEP; SPASM; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84863724877     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2012.03499.x     Document Type: Article

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