Advantages and limitations of brain imaging methods in the research of absence epilepsy in humans and animal models

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 195-202

  Lenkov, Dmitry N ^a   Volnova, Anna B ^c   Pope, Anna R D ^b   Tsytsarev, Vassiliy ^d  

^a Nevsky Center of Scientific Collaboration Saint Petersburg   (Russian Federation)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Absence epilepsy; Brain imaging; Epilepsy; Imaging methods; Near infrared spectroscopy; Optical imaging; Photoacoustic; Seizures; Voltage sensitive dye

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILDHOOD ABSENCE EPILEPSY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LOW RESOLUTION BRAIN ELECTROMAGNETIC TOMOGRAPHY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VOLTAGE SENSITIVE DYE IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; HUMANS; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 84870800699     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2012.10.018     Document Type: Review

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