Epilepsy research: A window onto function and dysfunction of the human brain

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 7-15

  Beck, Heinz ^a   Elger, Christian E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epilepsy model; Epilepsy research; Human genetics; Pharmacogenomics; Pharmacoresistance; Transgenic mouse

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE;

BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA MODIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHARMACOGENOMICS; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; MUTATION;

EID: 42149161105     PISSN: 12948322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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