Epilepsy: Ever-changing states of cortical excitability

Neuroscience

Volumn 222, Issue , 2012, Pages 89-99

  Badawy, R A B ^a,b   Freestone, D R ^b   Lai, A ^c   Cook, M J ^a,b  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Bionics Institute   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cortical excitability; Epilepsy; Peri ictal; Physiological variations; Seizures; Stress

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUCOSE; PROGESTERONE; STRESS HORMONE;

ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORTICAL EXCITABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC STATE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; ICTAL CORTICAL EXCITABILITY; INTERICTAL CORTICAL EXCITABILITY; MATURATION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MESIAL TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

AGING; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; SLEEP; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84864929688     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.07.015     Document Type: Article

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