Does arousal interfere with operant conditioning of spike-wave discharges in genetic epileptic rats?

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 90, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 75-82

  Osterhagen, Lasse ^a   Breteler, Marinus ^b,c   van Luijtelaar, Gilles ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c EEG Resource Institute   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Arousal; Brain computer interfaces; Neurofeedback; Spike wave discharges; WAG Rij rats

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SEIZURE; SPIKE WAVE; WISTAR ALBINO GLAXO RAT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; GENETICS; INBRED RAT STRAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGY; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 77953542442     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2010.03.010     Document Type: Article

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