TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Seizures and Epilepsy
A1  - Kandel, Eric R.
A1  - Koester, John D.
A1  - Mack, Sarah H.
A1  - Siegelbaum, Steven A.
PY  - 2021
T2  - Principles of Neural Science, 6e
AB  - UNTIL  QUITE  RECENTLY,  THE  FUNCTION  and  organization  of  the  human  cerebral  cortex—the  region  of  the  brain  concerned  with  perceptual,  motor,  and  cognitive  functions—has  eluded  both  clinicians  and  neuroscientists.  In  the  past,  the  analysis  of  brain  function  relied  largely  on  observations  of  loss  of  brain  functions  resulting  from  brain  damage  and  cell  loss  caused  by  strokes  or  trauma.  These  natural  experiments  provided  much  of  the  early  evidence  that  distinct  brain  regions  serve  specific  functions,  or  as  the  famous  American  neurologist  C.  Miller  Fisher  said,  “We  learn  about  the  brain  ‘stroke  by  stroke.’”  Observation  of  patients  with  seizures  and  epilepsy  has  been  equally  important  in  the  study  of  brain  function  because  the  behavioral  consequences  of  these  disorders  of  neural  hyperactivity  inform  clinicians  how  activation  affects  the  brain  regions  from  which  they  originate.  
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PB  - McGraw Hill
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2022/08/08
UR  - accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1180646585
ER  -