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Photically Induced Seizures in the Yellow Baboon, Papio Cynocephalus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

Michael E. Corcoran*
Affiliation:
Division of Neurological Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada and The Department of Psychology at the University of Victoria, Victoria B.C., Canada and University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Donald P. Cain
Affiliation:
Division of Neurological Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada and The Department of Psychology at the University of Victoria, Victoria B.C., Canada and University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Juhn A. Wada
Affiliation:
Division of Neurological Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada and The Department of Psychology at the University of Victoria, Victoria B.C., Canada and University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
*
Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700, Victoria, B.C., V8W 2Y2
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Significant susceptibility to photically induced seizures has in the past been observed only in Senegalese baboons (Papio papio) and epileptic humans. However, we have unexpectedly observed a phot omy oclonic response to intermittent photic stimulation in 5 of a sample of 6 yellow baboons (Papio cynocephalus).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1979

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