Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: Summary Chronic intermittent ethanol (CIE) treatment and withdrawal in rats produces behavioral changes that models human alcohol dependence, including increased seizure susceptibility, and can be explained by plastic changes in inhibitory neurotransmission involving γ‐aminobutyric acid (GABA)A receptors. For an expanded treatment of this topic see Jasper’s Basic Mechanisms of the Epilepsies, Fourth Edition (Noebels JL, Avoli M, Rogawski MA, Olsen RW, Delgado‐Escueta AC, eds) published by Oxford University Press (available on the National Library of Medicine Bookshelf [NCBI] at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books ).
Source: Epilepsia
Authors: Richard W. Olsen, Igor Spigelman
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Language: English
Subfield: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2059424196