Suppression of limbic motor seizures by electrical stimulation in thalamic reticular nucleus

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 224-230

  Nanobashvili, Zakaria ^a   Chachua, Tamar ^a   Nanobashvili, Avtandil ^b   Bilanishvili, Irina ^a   Lindvall, Olle ^b   Kokaia, Zaal ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Georgia)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Generalization; Hippocampus; Kindling; Seizure; Thalamic reticular nucleus

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERACTIVITY; LATERAL RETICULAR NUCLEUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; THALAMUS;

EID: 0038730930     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4886(03)00045-1     Document Type: Article

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