Age dependency of trauma-induced neocortical epileptogenesis

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Timofeev, Igor ^a,b   Sejnowski, Terrence J ^c,d   Bazhenov, Maxim ^e   Chauvette, Sylvain ^b   Grand, Laszlo B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DE L INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EN SANTÉ MENTALE DE QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Epileptogenesis; Excitability; Seizure; Sleep; Trauma; Wake

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

AGE; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DEAFFERENTATION; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HYPERPOLARIZATION; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PENETRATING TRAUMA; REM SLEEP; SEIZURE; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84885045525     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2013.00154     Document Type: Article

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