title: Laboratory note. EEG changes after acute cerebral embolism.
abstract: Embolism of the right middle cerebral artery regularly failed to induce clinical or electrical seizure activity during acute ischemia in primates. This negative correlation casts some doubt on the popular interpretation of seizures at the outset of clinical stroke as evidence of cerebral embolism.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology; D000882:Haplorhini; D002542:Intracranial Embolism and Thrombosis / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D011699:Putamen / Q000503:physiopathology; D012640:Seizures / Q000209:etiology