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Childhood Absence Epilepsy

Known as: Epilepsy, Childhood Absence, Absence Seizure, Absence Epilepsy, Childhood 
A childhood seizure disorder characterized by rhythmic electrical brain discharges of generalized onset. Clinical features include a sudden cessation… 
National Institutes of Health

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Atonic Absence Seizures

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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Early‐onset absence epilepsy caused by mutations in the glucose transporter GLUT1
Absence epilepsies of childhood are heterogeneous with most cases following complex inheritance. Those cases with onset before 4… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Going ill to work--what personal circumstances, attitudes and work-related factors are associated with sickness presenteeism?
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Report of the ILAE Classification Core Group
Summary:  A Core Group of the Task Force on Classification and Terminology has evaluated the lists of epileptic seizure types and… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Evolution in invasive plants: implications for biological control.
Review
2004
Review
2004
Chapter 5. Risk factors for sick leave - general studies
Extensive information is available from official statistics and descriptive studies on the association between different socio… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity
List of Tables Foreword, by Harry W. Greene Acknowledgments Introduction: The Logic of Biology Part I. Lizard Lifestyles 1… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
A splice-site mutation in GABRG2 associated with childhood absence epilepsy and febrile convulsions.
CONTEXT Missense mutations in the GABRG2 gene, which encodes the gamma 2 subunit of central nervous gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
La double absence : des illusions de l'émigré aux souffrances de l'immigré
Si l'immigre est absent de sa famille, de son pays, il est aussi absent, du fait de l'exclusion dont il est victime, du pays d… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
A comparison of valproate with carbamazepine for the treatment of complex partial seizures and secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures in adults. The Department of Veterans Affairs Epilepsy…
BACKGROUND Valproate is approved for use primarily in patients with absence seizures, but the drug has a broad spectrum of… 
Review
1970
Review
1970
Clinical and Electroencephalographical Classification of Epileptic Seizures
Current classifications of epileptic seizures vary considerably, and the need for a standardized and uniform system of grouping… 
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