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To understand the increase in age-related incidence and frequency of absence seizures in the rat brain, we investigated the effect of these seizures on brain dynamics. This paper puts forward the hypothesis that age-related differences in the expression of absence seizures are associated with the ability of the seizures to reset brain dynamics.
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This work was supported by an Epilepsy Foundation Targeted Research Initiative for Seniors Award (SPN), NINDS 5R01-NS046015 (KMK), and NIBIB R01EB002089 (JCS).
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Translated from Kibernetika i Sistemnyi Analiz, No. 5, pp. 45–53, September–October 2008.
An erratum to this article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10559-009-9142-0
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Nair, S.P., Jukkola, P.I., Quigley, M. et al. Absence seizures as resetting mechanisms of brain dynamics. Cybern Syst Anal 44, 664–672 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10559-008-9051-7
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