The amygdala is critical for seizure propagation from brainstem to forebrain

Neuroscience

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 975-984

  Hirsch, E ^a,b   Danober, L ^a   Simler, S ^a   De Vasconcelos, A Pereira ^a   Maton, B ^a   Nehlig, A ^a   Marescaux, C ^a,b   Vergnes, M ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

2 deoxyglucose; amygdala; audiogenic seizures; brainstem seizures; c Fos; limbic seizures

Indexed keywords

DEOXYGLUCOSE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDIOGENIC SEIZURE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; KINDLING; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030888067     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(96)00503-9     Document Type: Article

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