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Effects of cerebellar stimulation on epilepsy, the EEG and cerebral palsy in man.

Abstract

Eighteen of the first 29 patients with intractable epilepsy treated by chronic cerebellar stimulation (CCS) demonstrated a marked suppression of seizures. Sixty-eight of 100 patients with cerebral palsy showed clinical improvement after CCS. Electroencephalographic studies in three epileptic patients revealed a significant (P less than 0.001) reduction in number and duration of paroxysmal EEG discharges during epochs when the stimulator was on; …

Authors

Cooper IS; Upton AR

Journal

, , No. 34, pp. 349–354

Publication Date

1978

ISSN

0424-8155