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Two distinct types of clinical recurrent seizures or epilepsy have been identified: those that begin focally in cortex (partial seizures) and those that appear to begin synchronously in both hemispheres (generalized seizures). Because most experimentalists use focal physical or chemical techniques to initiate seizures, our concepts about epileptic mechanisms are, therefore, more applicable to clinical partial epilepsy.
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Crill, W.E., Schwindt, P.C., Flatman, J.A., Stafstrom, C.E., Spain, W. (1986). Inward Currents in Cat Neocortical Neurons Studied In Vitro . In: Schwarcz, R., Ben-Ari, Y. (eds) Excitatory Amino Acids and Epilepsy. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 203. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7971-3_30
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