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Pathophysiology of Neocortical Epileptic Seizures

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Research in my laboratory is supported by CIHR, NSERC, NIH and FRSQ. I express my deepest gratitude to my long-term collaborators: Dr. M. Steriade, M. Bazhenov and T. Sejnowski, as well as to numerous trainees and technicians that contributed to research activities by my laboratory during several last years.

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Timofeev, I. (2010). Pathophysiology of Neocortical Epileptic Seizures. In: Panayiotopoulos, C.P. (eds) Atlas of Epilepsies. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-128-6_27

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