Focal generation of paroxysmal fast runs during electrographic seizures

Epilepsia

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1925-1940

  Boucetta, Sofiane ^a   Chauvette, Sylvain ^a   Bazhenov, Maxim ^b   Timofeev, Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational model; Cortex; Electrographic seizures; In vivo; Intracellular; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE; XYLAZINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROGRAPHY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SPIKE WAVE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CATS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; NEURONS;

EID: 55349107543     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01707.x     Document Type: Article

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