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Efficacy of lamotrigine add-on therapy in severe partial epilepsy in adults with drop seizures and secondary bilateral synchrony on EEG Volume 3, numéro 3, September 2001

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MD, Neurological Institute. University of Bologna, Via Ugo Foscolo 7, 40123 Bologna, Italy.
  • Page(s) : 151-6
  • Année de parution : 2001

Epileptic drop attacks (EDA) have been defined as a sudden fall without warning, accompanied or not by loss of consciousness [1, 2]. This type of seizure can be found in patients with partial epilepsy (PE), and secondary bilateral synchrony (SBS) has been implicated as the physiopathogenetic basis [3-5]. SBS consists of an abrupt spread of the ictal focal discharge, mainly frontal, to both hemispheres via the corpus callosum and the hippocampal [...]