ictogenesis

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noun

The generation of a seizure

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nounictogenesis (uncountable)
  1. uncountablemedicineThe generation of a seizure
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    Findings achieved so far for these seizure networks are quite intriguing, given the similarity of their topological evolution across different types of epilepsies, seizures, medication, age, gender, and other clinical features, which might point to a common biophysical mechanism underlying ictogenesis.

    2015 August 20, Christian Geier, Klaus Lehnertz, Stephan Bialonski, “Time-dependent degree-degree correlations in epileptic brain networks: from assortative to dissortative mixing”, in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, volume 9, →DOI

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