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Ehninger, D.; de Vries, P. J.; Silva, A. J. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2009
Background: Tuberous sclerosis (TSC) is a multi-system disorder caused by heterozygous mutations in the "TSC1" or "TSC2" gene and is often associated with neuropsychiatric symptoms, including intellectual disability, specific neuropsychological deficits, autism, other behavioural disorders and epilepsy. Method: Here, we review evidence from animal…
Descriptors: Epilepsy, Mental Retardation, Seizures, Pathology
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Shouse, M. N.; Scordato, J. C.; Farber, P. R. – Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2004
Neural generators related to different sleep components have different effects on seizure discharge. These sleep-related systems can provoke seizure discharge propagation during nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep and can suppress propagation during REM sleep. Experimental manipulations of discrete physiological components were conducted in feline…
Descriptors: Epilepsy, Eye Movements, Seizures, Sleep