Classifying seizures and epilepsies: Limits of science and semantics

Epilepsy Currents

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 141-142

  Devinsky, Orrin ^a   Najjar, Souhel ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPILEPSY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; REVIEW; SCIENCE; SEIZURE; SEMANTICS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TONIC SEIZURE;

EID: 84864317885     PISSN: 15357597     EISSN: 15357511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5698/1535-7511-11.5.141     Document Type: Review

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