(1) The clinical application of extratemporal stimulation distal to the stylomastoid foramen is limited in these cases by the more proximal site of the lesion.
(2) Automatisms are predominantly seen in complex partial seizures arising from temporal areas, but they also may be seen in seizures with extratemporal onset.
(3) When analysis was confined to those seizures in which lateralization was possible, we correctly lateralized 93% to 99% of temporal seizures and 89% to 100% of extratemporal seizures.
(4) These features were correlated with the presence or absence of pathologic abnormalities in temporal and extratemporal locations.
(5) This metabolic defect commonly involves the temporal lobe in patients with complex partial seizures of mesial temporal origin, and is encountered less consistently with seizures of extratemporal neocortical origin.
(6) Most complex partial seizures emanate from the temporal lobe; however, the seizures also may be extratemporal in origin.
(7) Extratemporal seizure onset associated with abnormal pathological substrate was significantly more likely to have a lower frequency (less than 13 Hz, p less than 0.05) and no periodic spikes before seizure onset (p less than 0.00001) than extratemporal seizure onset recorded from areas without pathological findings.
(8) In the middle third of the extratemporal course of the facial nerve each branch has to be repaired and primary repair is advocated.
(9) The principals of VIIth nerve repair and grafting and presented in the intracranial, internal auditory canal, labyrinthine, tympanomastoid and extratemporal sites.
(10) The predominant ictal behavioural manifestations observed during seizure spread to contralateral temporal and extratemporal structures included warning (3%), motionless stare (36%), automatism (77%), and head-body turning (81%).
(11) The various therapeutic options such as temporal lobectomy, selective amygdalohippocampectomy, extratemporal cortical resections, hemispherectomy and corpus callosotomy are described and the risks and benefits of surgery discussed.
(12) The technique and results of surgical reconstruction of different extent of the extratemporal part of the facial nerve after oncological operations and after accidental injuries are reported.
(13) Seizures originated extratemporally in all 8 patients.
(14) Ictal onset was shown to be remote from the zone of previous resection in 3 of 15 cases (all 3 extratemporal and in the ipsilateral hemisphere).
(15) Type I CPSs are preceded by a motionless stare and have been correlated with a temporal focus, whereas Type II CPSs are not preceded by a motionless stare and have been correlated with an extratemporal focus.
(16) In 6 patients with technically adequate P3 studies and extratemporal seizures, bilaterally present P3 potentials were noted.
(17) The extratemporal part of the facial nerve and its primary branches may be successfully reconstructed with a suitable nerve graft obtained from the upper cervical region.
(18) Two patients served as control lobectomy specimens since they had normal neuropathological studies, and electroclinical correlations indicated an extratemporal lobe origin for complex partial seizures.
(19) Both cases of extratemporal recurrences and 3 of the 10 cases of temporal lobe recurrences in the area of previous resection were associated with residual unresected structural lesion.
(20) The authors describe the use of temporal lobectomy following careful and repeated electroencephalogram (EEG) evaluation (with implanted electrodes in otherwise unresolvable cases) in the epileptic group characterized by automatisms (psychomotor seizures) with temporal epileptiform activity complicated by EEG foci in the opposite temporal lobe or by extratemporal activity.
Temporal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery.
(n.) Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal.
(n.) Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as, temporal power; temporal courts.
(n.) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
(2) For each temporal position of the independent noise, discriminability was a function of the ratio of the duration of the independent noise (tau) to the total burst duration.
(3) Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment.
(4) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
(5) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
(6) After several months, a temporal discrimination was well established, as shown by maximum suppression toward the end of the signal period.
(7) The lengths and heights of the scalae tympani in ten pairs of serially sectioned temporal bones were measured by an adaptation of the serial section method of cochlear reconstruction.
(8) After calving, probably the position of new follicles is temporally influenced by direct signals from the uterine horns affected differently by pregnancy.
(9) In this series there were 45 patients (40%) with independent focal interictal EEG epileptic abnormalities over frontobasal cortex (with or without independent spiking over interomedial temporal region).
(10) A young man being treated with primary adjuvant Adriamycin and DDP for osteogenic sarcoma is described who developed a gingival line which temporally was related to DDP administration.
(11) It is found that, whereas the spatial resolution achievable with such a system is only dependent upon its temporal resolution, the scattering characteristics of the tissue being imaged will strongly affect the ultimate imaging performance of such a system.
(12) Out of 50 epileptics in 31 cases temporal-lobe epilepsy was present, in 15 the seizures and EEG changes were generalized, in 4 cases focal non-temporal-lobe epilepsy was recognized.
(13) Many of observed functional changes in freshly reimplanted lungs are temporally related to changes in extravascular water.
(14) Treatment modalities included: partial temporal bone resection, subtotal temporal bone resection, total temporal bone resection, radical mastoidectomy followed by radiation therapy, radiation therapy alone, and chemotherapy.
(15) The purpose of this study was to determine whether there was a temporal association between the introduction of a Fetal Diagnostic and Treatment Center and changes in fetal mortality.
(16) We have investigated the temporal pattern of appearance, cell lineage, and cytodifferentiation of selected sensory organs (sensilla) of adult Drosophila.
(17) The capacity of granule-cell networks to separate overlapping patterns of activity on their inputs is adequate, with spatial variability in the secretion at synapses, but is improved if there is also temporal variability in the stochastic secretion at individual synapses, although this is at the expense of reliability in the network.
(18) The periodic pattern was assumed as subclinical focal seizure discharges from the right anterior temporal deep structures.
(19) The current study explored the temporal course of the perception of vowel duration.
(20) After the fourth dose of L-asparaginase, he presented with severe headache and a CT scan showed a right temporal infarct.