Impaired consciousness in epilepsy

The Lancet Neurology

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 814-826

  Blumenfeld, Hal ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HISTAMINE; NORADRENALIN; OREXIN; SEROTONIN;

ABSENCE SEIZURE; ALERTNESS; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BASAL GANGLION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMA; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EPILEPSY; FOREBRAIN; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEUROIMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPIKE; STRIA MEDULLARIS; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA PARS RETICULATA; SYNCOPE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; WAVEFORM; WORKING MEMORY;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 84865121361     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: 14744465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(12)70188-6     Document Type: Review

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