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CONVULSIVE seizures of rodents have been described in rats1–4 and in Peromyscus5. Although various types of convulsive seizures exist, the epileptic form is common to all the strains of animals in which a seizure can be precipitated by specific sounds (audio-genie), and is also induced by other methods. This type has the following general form : a period of disorientated running is succeeded by a clonic phase or by clonic-tonic convulsions, terminating either in a spastic state, catalepsy or exhaustion.
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CHANCE, M. Aggression, a Component of Post-Epileptic Automatism in Peromyscus. Nature 161, 101–102 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161101b0
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