Behavioral and Cognitive Comorbidities in Genetic Rat Models of Absence Epilepsy (Focusing on GAERS and WAG/Rij Rats)

Absence epilepsy is a non-convulsive type of epilepsy characterized by the sudden loss of awareness. It is associated with thalamo-cortical impairment, which may cause neuropsychiatric and neurocognitive problems. Rats with spontaneous absence-like seizures are widely used as in vivo genetic models...

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Main Author: Evgenia Sitnikova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2024-01-01
Series:Biomedicines
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9059/12/1/122