Corticothalamic operations through prevalent inhibition of thalamocortical neurons

Thalamus and Related Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 225-236

  Steriade, Mircea ^a   Timofeev, Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Persistent rhythms in cortical neurons; Seizures; Sleep oscillations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000176987     PISSN: 14729288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-9288(01)00022-X     Document Type: Article

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