Transitions to spike-wave oscillations and epileptic dynamics in a human cortico-thalamic mean-field model

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 507-526

  Rodrigues, Serafim ^a   Barton, David ^a   Szalai, Robert ^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

Bifurcation; Continuation; Cortico thalamic model; EEG; Epilepsy; Inflection point; Mathematical modelling; Spike wave oscillations

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; HOPF BIFURCATION; MEAN FIELD THEORY;

ABSENCE SEIZURE; BIFURCATION; CONTINUATION; CORTICO-THALAMIC MODEL; EPILEPSY; INFLEXION POINT; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MEAN FIELD MODELS; SPIKE WAVES; SPIKE-WAVE OSCILLATION;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY;

ABSENCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OSCILLATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS;

EID: 70350573497     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-009-0166-2     Document Type: Article

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