Frontal and thalamic changes of GABA concentration indicate dysfunction of thalamofrontal networks in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1030-1037

  Hattingen, Elke ^a   Lückerath, Christian ^a   Pellikan, Stefanie ^a   Vronski, Dmitri ^a   Roth, Christine ^b   Knake, Susanne ^b   Kieslich, Matthias ^a   Pilatus, Ulrich ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

GABA; Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy; MR spectroscopy; Thalamofrontal

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ACEGLUTAMIDE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CHOLINE; CREATINE; ETIRACETAM; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; INOSITOL; LAMOTRIGINE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID BRAIN LEVEL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CELL DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GRAY MATTER; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NERVE CELL DENSITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THALAMUS; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

GABA; JUVENILE MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY; MR SPECTROSCOPY; THALAMOFRONTAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRONTAL LOBE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY, JUVENILE; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THALAMUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904381899     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/epi.12656     Document Type: Article

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