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Direct electrical stimulations of the temporal pole in human Volume 4, supplément 1, Supplement 1, September 2002

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Hôpital Neurologique, Service d'Épileptologie et d'Explorations Fonctionnelles Neurologiques, 59, boulevard Pinel, 69003 Lyon, France.
  • Page(s) : 23-7
  • Année de parution : 2002

In patients with drug-refractory partial epilepsy, direct electrical stimulation of the cortex is routinely applied during stereo-electroencephalography (SEEG), to define the epileptogenic area by reproducing the symptoms associated with seizure onset and/or the electrophysiological and clinical features typical of the patient's seizures. In patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, visceromotor, viscerosensitive, somesthetic symptoms, and experiential [...]