Microcircuits and their interactions in epilepsy: Is the focus out of focus?

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 351-359

  Paz, Jeanne T ^a   Huguenard, John R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; DRUG TARGETING; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MICROCIRCUIT; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; THALAMUS; ANIMAL; BRAIN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; NERVE NET;

EID: 84923654487     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3950     Document Type: Article

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