Advances in Understanding the Process of Epileptogenesis Based on Patient Material: What Can the Patient Tell Us?

Epilepsia

Volumn 44, Issue 12 SUPPL., 2003, Pages 60-71

  Engel Jr , Jerome ^a   Wilson, Charles ^a   Bragin, Anatol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fast ripples; Kainate rats; Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy; Neuronal mechanisms

Indexed keywords

KAINIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL LOSS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INHIBITION KINETICS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MONITORING; RAT; SEIZURE; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SYNDROME DELINEATION; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

EID: 0345802605     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2003.12002.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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