Myoclonic atonic epilepsy: Another generalized epilepsy syndrome that is "not so" generalized

Neurology

Volumn 82, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 1486-1487

  Zempel, John M ^a   Mano, Tadaaki ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FELBAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

ARTIFACT; BOLD SIGNAL; CHILDHOOD ABSENCE EPILEPSY; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; EDITORIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; KETOGENIC DIET; MECHANOCARDIOGRAPHY; MYOCLONIC ASTATIC EPILEPSY; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

BRAIN; BRAIN WAVES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 84902143775     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000000368     Document Type: Editorial

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