Anterior thalamic mediation of experimental seizures: Selective EEG spectral coherence

Epilepsia

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 355-365

  Mirski, Marek A ^a,c   Tsai, Yien Che ^b   Rossell, Lisa Ann ^a   Thakor, Nitish V ^b   Sherman, David L ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior thalamus; Coherence; EEG; Pentylenetetrazol; Seizure

Indexed keywords

PENTETRAZOLE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CLONIC SEIZURE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; SEIZURE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECTROSCOPY; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; THALAMUS POSTERIOR NUCLEUS; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THALAMIC NUCLEI; THALAMUS;

EID: 0344405798     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2003.33502.x     Document Type: Article

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