Acute seizure suppression by transcranial direct current stimulation in rats

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 843-856

  Dhamne, Sameer C ^a   Ekstein, Dana ^b   Zhuo, Zhihong ^a,c   Gersner, Roman ^a   Zurakowski, David ^a   Loddenkemper, Tobias ^a   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^d   Jensen, Frances E ^e   Rotenberg, Alexander ^a,c,d  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LORAZEPAM; PENTETRAZOLE;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; MYOCLONUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SPIKE WAVE; THETA RHYTHM; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85011775776     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23289503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acn3.226     Document Type: Article

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