Capturing the epileptic trait: Cortical excitability measures in patients and their unaffected siblings

Brain

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1177-1191

  Badawy, Radwa A B ^a,b   Vogrin, Simon J ^a   Lai, Alan ^c   Cook, Mark J ^a,b  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Bionics Institute   (Australia)

Author keywords

asymptomatic siblings; cortical excitability; epilepsy; seizures; transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENETIC TRAIT; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84876036796     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awt047     Document Type: Article

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