Ictal stimulus processing during spike-wave discharges in genetic epileptic rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 141-146

  Drinkenburg, W H I M ^a,b   Schuurmans, M L E J ^a   Coenen, A M L ^a   Vossen, J M H ^a   Van Luijtelaar, E L J M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b JANSSEN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Auditory discrimination; Cognition; Consciousness; Electroencephalography (EEG); Ictal information processing; Spike wave discharges; WAG Rij rat

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC STATE; EVALUATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REINFORCEMENT; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS GENERALIZATION;

EID: 0041592645     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(03)00031-7     Document Type: Article

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