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Clinical Presentations of Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus

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Nonconvulsive status epilepticus represents a pleomorphic group of epileptic conditions that encompasses a wide variety of behavioral manifestations with subjective and objective components. Depending on the anatomical origin, or area involved during the course of epileptic spread, clinical features may involve simple sensory, special sensory, autonomic, psychic and more complex patterns of human experience and behavior. These loci may involve temporal, frontal, parietal and occipital regions, or combinations of these, and be caused by a variety of etiologies including genetic, cortical/migrational, traumatic, ischemic, infectious, autoimmune, and others. This chapter will explore these myriad manifestations of nonconvulsive status epilepticus.

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Kaplan, P.W. (2018). Clinical Presentations of Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus. In: Drislane, F., Kaplan MBBS, P. (eds) Status Epilepticus. Current Clinical Neurology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58200-9_20

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