Are there specific anatomical and/or transmitter systems (cortical or subcortical) that should be targeted?

International Review of Neurobiology

Volumn 49, Issue , 2002, Pages 221-252

  Jobe, Phillip C ^a  

^a ILLINOIS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; BRAIN STEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOREBRAIN; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANTILE SPASM; NERVE TRACT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN STEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFANT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PROSENCEPHALON; SEIZURES; SPASMS, INFANTILE;

EID: 0036362144     PISSN: 00747742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7742(02)49015-0     Document Type: Review

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