Noninvasive transcranial direct current stimulation in a genetic absence model

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 42-50

  Zobeiri, M ^a   van Luijtelaar, G ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Cathodal tDCS; EEG; Hyperpolarization; Repetitive cathodal stimulation; Spectral analyses; SWDs; WAG Rij rats

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE EPILEPSY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANODIC TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; ARTICLE; CATHODIC TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RAT; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN WAVES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84870535338     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2012.10.018     Document Type: Article

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