Neck atonia with a focal stimulation-induced seizure arising from the SMA: Pathophysiological considerations

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 503-506

  Kovac, Stjepana ^a,b   Nachev, Parashkev ^a   Rodionov, Roman ^a   Scott, Catherine ^a   McEvoy, Andrew W ^a   Toms, Nathan ^a   Wehner, Tim ^a   Duncan, John S ^a   Diehl, Beate ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atonia; Cortical stimulation mapping; Epilepsy; Epilepsy surgery; Frontal lobe; Negative motor area; Psychogenic nonepileptic seizure; Supplementary sensorimotor area

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIMB WEAKNESS; MUSCLE ATONIA; NECK ATONIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SKIN TINGLING; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TELEMETRY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTOR CORTEX; NECK MUSCLES; SEIZURES;

EID: 84864314741     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2012.05.012     Document Type: Article

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