Amygdala kindling of forebrain seizures and the occurrence of brainstem seizures in genetically epilepsy-prone rats

Epilepsia

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 188-197

  Coffey, Lori L ^a   Reith, Maarten E A ^a   Chen, Nian Hang ^a,b   Mishra, Pravin K ^a   Jobe, Phillip C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Brainstem; Electrical stimulation; Epilepsy; Forebrain; Genetic; Genetically epilepsy prone rat; Rat; Seizure

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOREBRAIN; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; KINDLING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES;

EID: 0030044716     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1996.tb00011.x     Document Type: Article

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