1. The development of propagated discharge and behavioural arrest in hippocampal and amygdala kindled seizures

Patients with focal temporal lobe seizures often experience transient episodes of impaired awareness with behavioural arrest, but the precise mechanism remains unknown. The Blumenfeld hypothesis attributes these deficits to a loss of cholinergic input to the cortex. This is presumed to result from increased activation of inhibitory regions that suppress subcortical arousal, giving rise to slow wave activity. To investigate this hypothesis – and more specifically, to characterize the relationship between propagated discharge, cortical slow waves and behavioural arrest – we performed kindling studies in rats.

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