The epilepsies: Complex challenges needing complex solutions

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 212-228

  Tejada, Julián ^a   Costa, Kauê M ^a   Bertti, Poliana ^a   Garcia Cairasco, Norberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Complex systems; Computational models; Emergent properties; Epileptogenesis; Epileptogenic circuits; Graph theory; Semiology

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DENDRITE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; GLIA; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NEUROCHEMISTRY; REVIEW; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SYMPTOM; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84875247988     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2012.09.029     Document Type: Review

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