Prolonged field potentials evoked by 1 Hz stimulation in the dentate gyrus of temporal lobe epileptic human brain slices

Brain Research

Volumn 721, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 132-139

  Masukawa, Leona M ^a   Wang, Haiwei ^a   O'Connor, Michael J ^a   Uruno, Katsuhisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

2 Amino 5 phosphonovalerate; Disinhibition; Excitability; Paired pulse depression; Paroxysmal discharge; Population spike

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN SLICE; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

EID: 0029942884     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(96)00153-9     Document Type: Article

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