Focal abnormalities in idiopathic generalized epilepsy: A critical review of the literature

Epilepsia

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1157-1169

  Seneviratne, Udaya ^a,b   Cook, Mark ^a   D'Souza, Wendyl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Electroencephalographic; Epilepsy semiology; Generalized seizures; Neuroimaging; Neuropsychology; Partial seizures

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMUS; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VOLUMETRY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC; EPILEPSY SEMIOLOGY; GENERALIZED SEIZURES; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PARTIAL SEIZURES;

ANIMALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 84905580365     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/epi.12688     Document Type: Article

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