Granger causality: Cortico-thalamic interdependencies during absence seizures in WAG/Rij rats

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 245-254

  Sitnikova, Evgenia ^a   Dikanev, Taras ^b,c   Smirnov, Dmitry ^c   Bezruchko, Boris ^b,c   van Luijtelaar, Gilles ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGHER NERVOUS ACTIVITY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b SARATOV STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERING AND ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animal model; Electroencephalogram; Functional coupling; Granger causality; Spike and wave seizures; Thalamo cortical associations; Thalamo cortical network

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FRONTAL CORTEX; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; STRENGTH; TECHNIQUE; THALAMUS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; FEEDBACK; MALE; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; THALAMUS;

EID: 41949115078     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.01.017     Document Type: Article

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