Endogenous rhythm of absence epilepsy: Relationship with general motor activity and sleep-wake states

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 93, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 120-127

  Smyk, Magdalena K ^a   Coenen, Anton M L ^b   Lewandowski, Marian H ^a   van Luijtelaar, Gilles ^b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Absence seizures; Circadian rhythmicity; Motor activity; Sleep wake states; Spike wave discharges; WAG Rij rats

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; SPIKE WAVE; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 79251607314     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2010.11.003     Document Type: Article

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