منابع مشابه
Reading epilepsy.
From the Departments of Medicine, Government Medical College, Jammu. Correspondence to : Dr. S. K. Gupta, Professor Incharge Neurology, Government Medical College, Jammu. For a long time it has been known that seizures could be evoked in certain epileptic individuals by a discrete physiologic or psychologic stimulus. The term reflex epilepsy is reserved for this small subgroup. Forster(1) has c...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Neurology Briefs
سال: 1995
ISSN: 2166-6482,1043-3155
DOI: 10.15844/pedneurbriefs-9-5-4