fMRI of brain activation in a genetic rat model of absence seizures

Epilepsia

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 576-582

  Tenney, Jeffrey R ^a   Duong, Timothy Q ^a   King, Jean A ^a   Ferris, Craig F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Absence seizure; Epilepsy; FMRI; Imaging; WAG Rij

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 3042692040     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2004.39303.x     Document Type: Article

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