What is special about the adolescent (JME) brain?

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Craiu, Dana ^a  

^a CAROL DAVILA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Brain development; Connectivity; GABAA receptors; Gray matter; Hormonal influence; JME; Thalamic maturation; White matter

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID CARRIER; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65;

ADOLESCENCE; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC RISK; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; JUVENILE MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; MYELINATION; MYOCLONUS SEIZURE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEWBORN PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUTAMEN; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYNAPSE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY, JUVENILE;

EID: 84878987192     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2012.12.008     Document Type: Review

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