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ArticleEpilepsy currents2011

Does acquired epileptogenesis in the immature brain require neuronal death.

Tallie Z Baram, Frances E Jensen, Amy Brooks-Kayal

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Article in Epilepsy currents, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. A novel, noninvasive, predictive epilepsy biomarker with clinical potential.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2014
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  17. Novel animal models of pediatric epilepsy.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2012
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Tallie Z BaramDepartments of Anatomy/Neurobiology and Pediatrics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA.
Frances E Jensen
Amy Brooks-Kayal
Boston Children's Hospital · USChildren's Hospital Colorado · USUniversity of California, Irvine · US

Funding

Understanding the Cognitive Impact of Early Life EpilepsyDP1OD003347 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI JENSEN, FRANCES E · 2007 to 2011
$4.2M
The Epileptogenic Effect of Perinatal HypoxiaR01NS031718 · NINDS · CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOSTON · PI JENSEN, FRANCES E · 1997 to 2011
$3.8M
GABAA RECEPTORS IN DEVELOPMENTAL EPILEPTOGENESISR01NS038595 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI BROOKS-KAYAL, AMY R. · 1999 to 2009
$3.2M
FEBRILE SEIZURE MODEL--NEURONAL INJURY AND MECHANISMSR01NS035439 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI BARAM, TALLIE Z. · 1997 to 2018
$3.2M
Febrile Seizure Model - Neuronal Injury and MechanismsR37NS035439 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI BARAM, TALLIE Z. · 2006 to 2012
$2.6M
The Epileptogenic Effect of Perinatal HypoxiaR56NS031718 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI JENSEN, FRANCES E · 2007 to 2013
$907k
NIH HHS DP1 OD003347NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS031718NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS035439NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS038595NINDS NIH HHS R37 NS035439NINDS NIH HHS R56 NS031718
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Because epilepsy often occurs during development, understanding the mechanisms by which this process takes place (epileptogenesis) is important. In addition, the age-specificity of seizures and epilepsies of the neonatal, infancy, and childhood periods suggests that the processes and mechanisms that culminate in epilepsy might be age specific as well. Here we provide an updated review of recent and existing literature and discuss evidence that neuronal loss may occur during epileptogenesis in the developing brain, but is not required for the epileptogenic process. We speculate about the mechanisms for the resilience of neurons in immature limbic structures to epileptogenic insults, and propose that the type, duration and severity of these insults influence the phenomenology of the resulting spontaneous seizures.

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PMID21461261
PMCPMC3063568
OpenAlexW1985907459

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