Ictal involvement of the nigrostriatal system in subtle seizures of ring chromosome 20 epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Meletti, Stefano ^a   Vignoli, Aglaia ^b   Benuzzi, Francesca ^a   Avanzini, Pietro ^c   Ruggieri, Andrea ^a   Pugnaghi, Matteo ^a   Nichelli, Paolo ^a   Canevini, Maria Paola ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b SAN PAOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; BOLD; EEG fMRI; Ring chromosome 20 epilepsy; Substantia nigra

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 20; DROWSINESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; MESENCEPHALON; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RING CHROMOSOME; SEIZURE; SPIKE WAVE;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, 19-20; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RING CHROMOSOMES; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SYNDROME;

EID: 84864990569     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2012.03568.x     Document Type: Article

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