Spike-wave discharges in WAG/Rij rats are preceded by delta and theta precursor activity in cortex and thalamus

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 687-695

  Van Luijtelaar, Gilles ^a   Hramov, Alexander ^b   Sitnikova, Evgenia ^c   Koronovskii, Alexei ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b SARATOV STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF HIGHER NERVOUS ACTIVITY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Absence seizures; Continuous wavelet; Delta; H currents; Precursor activity; Spike wave discharges; Theta; WAG Rij rats

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMUS; THETA RHYTHM;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SOFTWARE; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TELEMETRY; THALAMUS; THETA RHYTHM; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952314101     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.10.038     Document Type: Article

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