Provoked and reflex seizures: Surprising or common?

Epilepsia

Volumn 53, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2012, Pages 105-113

  Kasteleijn Nolst Trenité, Dorothée G A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adults; Children; Epilepsy; Precipitating factors; Provoked seizures; Reflex; Sensory evoked

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CAFFEINE;

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EXCITATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOKED SEIZURE; REFLEX EPILEPSY; SEIZURE; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; STRESS;

ADULT; CHILD; EPILEPSY, REFLEX; HUMANS; SEIZURES; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865784446     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2012.03620.x     Document Type: Article

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