Seizure precipitants in a community-based epilepsy cohort

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 261, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 717-724

  Wassenaar, Merel ^a,b   Kasteleijn Nolst Trenité, Dorothée G A ^a,c   De Haan, Gerrit Jan ^b   Carpay, Johannes A ^d,e   Leijten, Frans S S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b STICHTING EPILEPSIE INSTELLINGEN NEDERLAND SEIN   (Netherlands)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d Tergooi Hospitals   (Netherlands)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Community based; Epilepsy; Provoked seizures; Seizure precipitants

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CAFFEINE;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEJA VU; DIZZINESS; EPIGASTRIC AURA; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC AURA; EXERCISE; FEAR; FEMALE; FEVER; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HEADACHE; HEAT; HUMAN; LIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENSTRUATION; MIDDLE AGED; ONSET AGE; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEIZURE; SELF REPORT; SENSATION; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SOUND; STRESS; ADOLESCENT; COMPLICATION; MENTAL STRESS; NETHERLANDS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; SEIZURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURES; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898852406     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-014-7252-8     Document Type: Article

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