From sleep spindles of natural sleep to spike and wave discharges of typical absence seizures: Is the hypothesis still valid?

Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology

Volumn 463, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 201-212

  Leresche, Nathalie ^a   Lambert, Régis C ^a,b   Errington, Adam C ^b   Crunelli, Vincenzo ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cortex; Epilepsy; GABA receptors; Nucleus reticularis thalami; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR;

ABSENCE; BRAIN CORTEX; CORTICOTHALAMOCORTICAL NETWORK; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SLEEP; SLEEP SPINDLE; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMUS RETICULAR NUCLEUS; VALIDATION STUDY; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN WAVES; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; HUMANS; NERVE NET; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SLEEP; THALAMUS;

EID: 84856734121     PISSN: 00316768     EISSN: 14322013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00424-011-1009-3     Document Type: Review

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