Attempts to simulate the association between geomagnetic activity and spontaneous seizures in rats using experimentally generated magnetic fields

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 619-626

  Michon, Andre ^a   Koren, S A ^a   Persinger, M A ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM CHLORIDE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EPILEPSY; GRAVITY; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WISTAR RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EPILEPSY; GRAVITATION; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030120514     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1996.82.2.619     Document Type: Article

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