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Normal and Epileptic Synchronization at the Cortical Level in the Animal

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Synchronization of EEG Activity in Epilepsies

Abstract

Synchronization is a descriptive rather than an operative term. It relates to the extent to which a population, or populations, of nervous elements are simultaneously active or silent without prejudice to any particular mechanism.

This paper sums up a fairly large number of data from the research work of several teams of the Laboratoire de Recherches Neurophysiologiques de la Pitié-Salpêtrière; data concerning the physiological aspects of synchronization by A. Fourment and M. Thieffry, ontogenesis by R. Verley and L. Garma, convulsive activity by L. Jami and isolated cortex by J. Hirsch, J. F. Hirsch and J. Landau.

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  1. Unité de Recherches Neurophysiologiques de l’INSERM, Faculté Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

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  1. Neurological Institute of the University of Vienna and Brain Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria

    H. Petsche

  2. Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

    Mary A. B. Brazier

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Scherrer, J., Calvet, J. (1972). Normal and Epileptic Synchronization at the Cortical Level in the Animal. In: Petsche, H., Brazier, M.A.B. (eds) Synchronization of EEG Activity in Epilepsies. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-8306-9_9

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