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Generation of Epileptiform Field Potentials in the Cerebral Cortex

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Presurgical Evaluation of Epileptics

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This chapter deals with the generation of potentials detectable in the space surrounding cellular elements of central nervous structures. Such field potentials have a prominent significance in the investigation of brain functions. Thus, the conventional electroencephalogram represents an essential tool in the diagnosis and classification of epileptic seizures as well as in the control of antiepileptic therapy. Also in experimental epileptology, field potentials have often been used in the functional analysis of neuronal populations. In the following, the mechanisms underlying the generation of seizure potentials in the cerebral cortex will be described. In this context, field potentials occurring during partial and generalized tonic-clonic seizures will be considered successively (Andersen and Andersson 1968; Caspers et al. 1984; Creutzfeldt and Houchin 1974; Goldensohn 1984; Klee et al. 1981; Lopes da Silva and van Rotterdam 1982; Prince 1974; Speckmann 1985; Speckmann and Caspers 1979 a; Speckmann and Elger 1982,1984; Speckmann et al. 1984).

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  1. Department of Experimental Epileptology, Institute of Physiology — Neurophysiology, University of Münster, Robert-Koch-Str. 27 a, 4400, Münster, Federal Republic of Germany

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Speckmann, EJ., Walden, J. (1987). Generation of Epileptiform Field Potentials in the Cerebral Cortex. In: Wieser, H.G., Elger, C.E. (eds) Presurgical Evaluation of Epileptics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71103-9_8

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