Epileptogenic networks in two patients with hypothalamic hamartoma

Brain Topography

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 327-331

  Kokkinos, Vasileios ^a   Zountsas, Basilios ^a   Kontogiannis, Konstantinos ^a   Garganis, Kyriakos ^a  

^a St Luke's Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Complex partial seizures; EEG fMRI; Epilepsy; Gelastic seizures; Hypothalamic hamartoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; CASE REPORT; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GELASTIC SEIZURE; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, COMPLEX PARTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET;

EID: 84864650000     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: 15736792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-011-0214-x     Document Type: Article

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