A unifying explanation of primary generalized seizures through nonlinear brain modeling and bifurcation analysis

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1296-1313

  Breakspear, M ^a,b,e   Roberts, J A ^a   Terry, J R ^c   Rodrigues, S ^c   Mahant, N ^d   Robinson, P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e BLACK DOG INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Neural modeling; Nonlinear dynamics; Primary generalized epilepsy; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SEIZURES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS;

EID: 33747891705     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhj072     Document Type: Article

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