NR AIWL
AU Niedermeyer,E.; Fineyre,F.; Riley,T.; Bird,B.
TI Myoclonus and the electroencephalogram, a review
QU Clinical Electroencephalography 1979 Apr; 10(2): 75-95
PT journal article; review
AB Myoclonus is a phenomenon which cuts through a considerable number of neurological conditions. It occurs in a variety of epileptic conditions (Primary generalized epilepsy, hypsarrhythmia, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, also known as "petit mal variant"), in inborn errors of metabolism (Tay-Sachs disease, forms of ceroid lipofuscinosis), in neurobiochemically still poorly understood forms of degenerative processes such as Essential hereditary myoclonus epilepsy (Lafora-Unverricht-Lundborg), in benign heredo-degenerative disorders (Hartung's syndrome), in CNS infections (SSPE, Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease), in metabolic encephalopathies (renal failure, hypoglycemia), in CNS poisoning, in acute cerebral anoxia and in post-anoxic states. The EEG plays a crucial role in the differential diagnosis of these conditions by the demonstration of a) presence or absence of typical inter-ictal abnormalities, and b) various correlates of the myoclonic ictal event.
ZR 112
MH Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Anoxia/physiopathology; Child; Child, Preschool; Convulsions/etiology/physiopathology; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome/physiopathology; Diagnosis, Differential; *Electroencephalography; Epilepsies, Myoclonic/genetics/physiopathology; Epilepsy, Absence/physiopathology; Female; Human; Hypoglycemia/physiopathology; Hypoxia, Brain/physiopathology; Infant; Kidney Diseases/physiopathology; Male; Middle Age; Myoclonus/etiology/*physiopathology; Photic Stimulation; Poisoning/physiopathology; Spasms, Infantile/physiopathology; Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis/physiopathology; Tay-Sachs Disease/physiopathology
SP englisch
PO USA