A Sheep Model for the Study of Focal Epilepsy with Concurrent Intracranial EEG and Functional MRI

Summary:  Purpose: We describe a sheep model of penicillin‐induced seizure activity using electroencephalography (EEG) and functional MRI (fMRI).

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