Anticonvulsant effects of transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) in the rat cortical ramp model of focal epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1216-1224

  Liebetanz, David ^a   Klinker, Florian ^a   Hering, Diana ^a   Koch, Reinhard ^a   Nitsche, Michael A ^a   Potschka, Heidrun ^b   Löscher, Wolfgang ^b   Paulus, Walter ^a   Tergau, Frithjof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antiepileptic drugs; Epilepsy; Neuroplasticity; Rat brain; Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECT CURRENT; ELECTRODE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG RESISTANCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 33746137333     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00539.x     Document Type: Article

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