Onset of polyspike complexes in a mean-field model of human electroencephalography and its application to absence epilepsy

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1891, 2009, Pages 1145-1161

  Marten, Frank ^a   Rodrigues, Serafim ^a   Benjamin, Oscar ^a   Richardson, Mark P ^b   Terry, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Bifurcation; Continuation; Human electroencephalography; Mathematical modelling; Spike wave

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

ABSENCE EPILEPSY; BIFURCATION; CONTINUATION; HUMAN ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELLING; SPIKE WAVE;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ABSENCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; THALAMUS;

BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; THALAMUS;

EID: 60749106680     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0255     Document Type: Article

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