Excitatory amplification through divergent-convergent circuits: The role of the midline thalamus in limbic seizures

Neurobiology of Disease

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 435-445

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Field potentials; Limbic system; Mediodorsal nucleus; Seizure; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

SODIUM; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EVOKED RESPONSE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MONOSYNAPTIC PATHWAY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUBICULUM; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MIDLINE THALAMIC NUCLEI; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 80955181116     PISSN: 09699961     EISSN: 1095953X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2011.04.017     Document Type: Article

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