Spike-and-wave discharges of absence seizures as a transformation of sleep spindles: The continuing development of a hypothesis

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2000, Pages

  Kostopoulos, George K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Absence seizures; Epilepsy; Reticular nucleus; Spike and wave; Spindles; Thalamocortical

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ABSENCE; ARTICLE; CAT; COMPUTER MODEL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP SPINDLE; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

ANIMAL; BRAIN; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; HUMAN; SLEEP;

EID: 0034282258     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(00)00399-0     Document Type: Article

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