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NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 14, Issue 5, Pages 337-349Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3482
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- NINDS NIH HHS [R01 NS082046, R01 NS032403, R01 NS038572] Funding Source: Medline
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Epilepsy is a prevalent neurological disorder associated with significant morbidity and mortality, but the only available drug therapies target its symptoms rather than the underlying cause. The process that links brain injury or other predisposing factors to the subsequent emergence of epilepsy is termed epileptogenesis. Substantial research has focused on elucidating the mechanisms of epileptogenesis so as to identify more specific targets for intervention, with the hope of preventing epilepsy before seizures emerge. Recent work has yielded important conceptual advances in this field. We suggest that such insights into the mechanisms of epileptogenesis converge at the level of cortical circuit dysfunction.
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