In search of epilepsy biomarkers in the immature brain: Goals, challenges and strategies

Biomarkers in Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 615-628

  Galanopoulou, Aristea S ^a   Moshé, Solomon L ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive; development; electrophysiology; epileptogenesis; imaging; pathology

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MODEL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ONSET AGE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATIENT CARE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TRACTOGRAPHY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; RATS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80054793766     PISSN: 17520363     EISSN: 17520371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/bmm.11.71     Document Type: Article

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