Functional organization of the circuits connecting the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia: Implications for the role of the basal ganglia in epilepsy

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 4, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2002, Pages

  Slaght, Seán Joseph ^a   Paz, Tamar ^b   Mahon, Séverine ^b   Maurice, Nicolas ^b   Charpier, Stéphane ^b   Deniau, Jean Michel ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Laboratoire de Physiologie de la Perception et de l'Action   (France)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Basal ganglia; Cortico striatal neurons; Epilepsy; GAERS; In vivo intracellular recordings; Neocortex

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEPOLARIZATION; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MOTOR CONTROL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOPAMINE; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; SUBTHALAMUS;

EID: 0036928125     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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