Seizure currents (IMAGE)

Picower Institute at MIT

Seizure currents

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In hope of finding a current level that wouldn't trigger seizures, researchers progressively titrated current (horizontal axis). Here during titration (left panel), a mouse experienced a seizure (a burst of higher voltages at a broad spread of frequencies) at 150 microamps. When the researchers applied a test current at 100 microamps for a longer time (right panel), a seizure occurred as well.

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