Corticothalamic modulation during absence seizures in rats: A functional MRI assessment

Epilepsia

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1133-1140

  Tenney, Jeffrey R ^a,b   Duong, Timothy Q ^a,b   King, Jean A ^a,b   Ludwig, Reinhold ^c   Ferris, Craig F ^a,b  

^a Center for Comparative Neuroimaging   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Absence seizure; Epilepsy; FMRI; GHB; Imaging

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE WAVE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THALAMUS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0042916562     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2003.61002.x     Document Type: Article

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