Temporal sequence of ictal discharges propagation in the corticolimbic basal ganglia system during amygdala kindled seizures in freely moving rats

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 85-97

  Shi, Li Hong ^a   Luo, Fei ^b   Woodward, Donald J ^c   McIntyre, Dan C ^d   Chang, Jing Yu ^c  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^c Neuroscience Research Institute of North Carolina   (United States)

^d CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Rats; Single unit recording; Substantia nigra pars reticulata; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN REGION; CLONIC SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; SEIZURE; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEIZURES;

EID: 33846093587     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2006.08.008     Document Type: Article

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