Typical versus atypical absence seizures: Network mechanisms of the spread of paroxysms

Epilepsia

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1585-1593

  Velazquez, Jose L Perez ^a,b   Huo, Jeanne Zhen ^a   Dominguez, L Garcia ^a   Leshchenko, Yevgen ^a   Snead III, O Carter ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Hippocampus; In vivo recordings; Inhibition; Rats; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIMBIC CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SPREADING CORTICAL DEPRESSION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS; TRANS-1,4-BIS(2-CHLOROBENZAMINOMETHYL)CYCLOHEXANE DIHYDROCHLORIDE;

EID: 34547841400     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01120.x     Document Type: Article

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