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ReviewNature reviews. Neuroscience2013

Mechanisms of epileptogenesis: a convergence on neural circuit dysfunction.

Ethan M Goldberg, Douglas A Coulter

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Review in Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 263 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

263 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ethan M GoldbergThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Division of Neurology, Colket Translational Research Building, 3501 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4399, USA.
Douglas A Coulter

Funding

Neuronal Circuit Mechanisms of EpileptogenesisR01NS038572 · NINDS · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI COULTER, DOUGLAS A · 1999 to 2022
$8.0M
Normal and Pathological Function of the Dentate GyrusR01NS082046 · NINDS · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI Hajime Takano · 2012 to 2026
$6.1M
PHYSIOLOGY OF STATUS EPILEPTICUS IN VITROR01NS032403 · NINDS · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI COULTER, DOUGLAS A · 1994 to 2012
$2.7M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS032403NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS038572NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS082046
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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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AnimalsCerebral CortexEpilepsyHumansModels, BiologicalNerve NetSignal Transduction

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PMID23595016
PMCPMC3982383

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