Viscum Album in the Treatment of a Girl with Refractory Childhood Absence Epilepsy

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1048-1052

  Von Schoen Angerer, Tido ^a,d   Madeleyn, René ^b   Kienle, Gunver ^c   Kiene, Helmut ^c   Vagedes, Jan ^a,b,e  

^a ARCIM Institute   (Germany)

^b University of Witten/Herdecke ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^d Clinique d'Ophtalmologie de Fribourg   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

absence epilepsy; case reports; European mistletoe; integrative medicine; Viscum album

Indexed keywords

CLOBAZAM; ETHOSUXIMIDE; LAMOTRIGINE; MESUXIMIDE; VALPROIC ACID; VISCUM ALBUM EXTRACT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BLINKING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD ABSENCE EPILEPSY; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; DENVER DEVELOPMENTAL SCREENING TEST; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GESTATION PERIOD; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; ICD-10; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; KETOACIDOSIS; KETOGENIC DIET; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH DELAY; SPIKE WAVE; THETA RHYTHM; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT FAILURE; VISCUM ALBUM; WEIGHT REDUCTION; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; BRAIN WAVES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 84931826075     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: 17088283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0883073814541473     Document Type: Article

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