POST-TRAUMATIC EPILEPSY | Posttraumatic Models

Encyclopedia of Basic Epilepsy Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1229-1238

  Kharatishvili, I ^a   Pitkanen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Animal models; EEG monitoring; Epileptogenesis; Lesion evolution; Recurrent seizures; Spike wave complex; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949364953     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012373961-2.00148-X     Document Type: Chapter

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