Increased GABAergic inhibition in the midline thalamus affects signaling and seizure spread in the hippocampus-prefrontal cortex pathway

Epilepsia

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 523-530

  Sloan, David M ^a,b   Zhang, DeXing ^b   Bertram III, Edward H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

GABA; Limbic system; Mediodorsal nucleus; Prefrontal cortex; Seizures; Subiculum

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; MUSCIMOL;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EVOKED RESPONSE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUBICULUM; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; GABA-A RECEPTOR AGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MUSCIMOL; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SEIZURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSES; THALAMUS;

EID: 79952545772     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02919.x     Document Type: Article

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