Cortical focus drives widespread corticothalamic networks during spontaneous absence seizures in rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1480-1495

  Meeren, Hanneke K M ^a,b   Pijn, Jan Pieter M ^b   Van Luijtelaar, Egidius L J M ^c   Coenen, Anton M L ^c   Da Silva, Fernando H Lopes ^d  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Dutch Epilepsy Clinics Foundation   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Cortical focus; Generalized spike wave discharges; Nonlinear association analysis; Synchronized oscillations; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GENETIC MODEL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VELOCITY;

EID: 0037083650     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-04-01480.2002     Document Type: Article

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