Design and construction of a long-term continuous video-EEG monitoring unit for simultaneous recording of multiple small animals

Brain Research Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 85-97

  Bertram, Edward H ^a   Williamson, John M ^a   Cornett, John F ^a   Spradlin, Sherry ^a   Chen, Zong Fu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; EEG monitoring; Epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEIZURES; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0031398952     PISSN: 1385299X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1385-299X(97)00033-0     Document Type: Article

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