Open AccessJuvenile myoclonic epilepsy: Clinical characteristics, standard and quantitative electroencephalography analyses
Author(s) -
Sai Krishna Tikka,
Nishant Goyal,
Shreekantiah Umesh,
S. Haque Nizamie
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of pediatric neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.247
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1998-3948
pISSN - 1817-1745
DOI - 10.4103/1817-1745.117835
Subject(s) - juvenile myoclonic epilepsy , endophenotype , electroencephalography , epilepsy , medicine , idiopathic generalized epilepsy , generalized epilepsy , quantitative electroencephalography , ictal , audiology , psychiatry , cognition
Most studies comparing inter-ictal background quantitative electroencephalography (EEG) measures in generalized epilepsies with normal controls do not specifically determine patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) as a separate group. The study aims at comparing absolute spectral power and global field coherence in various frequency bands between patients diagnosed exclusively with JME and 10 healthy controls, and correlating significantly different quantitative EEG measures with various clinical characteristics and standard EEG abnormalities.