Rhythmic neuronal activity in S2 somatosensory and insular cortices contribute to the initiation of absence-related spike-and-wave discharges

Epilepsia

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1948-1958

  Zheng, Thomas W ^a,b,c   O'Brien, Terence J ^a,b,c   Morris, Margaret J ^d   Reid, Christopher A ^e   Jovanovska, Valentina ^a   O'Brien, Patrick ^a   Van Raay, Leena ^a   Gandrathi, Arun K ^a   Pinault, Didier ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Oscillation; Somatosensory cortex; Spike and wave discharges

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATION; INSULA; LOCAL FIELD POTENTIAL; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROLEPTANESTHESIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RHYTHM; SEIZURE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE WAVE; SPIKE WAVE DISCHARGE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; MALE; NEURONS; PERIODICITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 84869080884     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2012.03720.x     Document Type: Article

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