Modeling Circuit Alterations in Epilepsy: A Focus on Mossy Cell Loss and Mossy Fiber Sprouting in the Dentate Gyrus

Computational Neuroscience in Epilepsy

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 89-111

  Santhakumar, Vijayalakshmi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84882503027     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012373649-9.50010-7     Document Type: Chapter

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