Pediatric Neurology Briefs (Oct 2014)

Motor Co-Activation of Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy in Siblings

  • J Gordon Millichap,
  • John J Millichap

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-28-10-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 10
pp. 78 – 79

Abstract

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Investigators at UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK, used functional magnetic resonance imaging to study the effect of cognitive effort during a working memory task as a trigger of myoclonic jerks in 15 unaffected siblings (10 female; age range 18-65 years, median 40 yrs) of 11 patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (6 female; age range 22-54 yrs, median 35).

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