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ArticleExperimental neurology2014

Early-life seizures result in deficits in social behavior and learning.

Joaquin N Lugo, John W Swann, Anne E Anderson

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Article in Experimental neurology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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51citing papers in PubMed
5.3field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

51 citing papers in PubMed, 74 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Joaquin N LugoDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798, USA; Cain Foundation Laboratories, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA. Electronic address: joaquin_lugo@baylor.edu.
John W SwannCain Foundation Laboratories, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Anne E AndersonCain Foundation Laboratories, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Baylor College of Medicine · USBaylor University · US

Funding

UNDERSTANDING FXTAS AMONG MALES WITH THE FMR1 PREMUTATIONP30HD024064 · NICHD · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI WHITE, LISA D · 1988 to 2013
$29.4M
IMMATURE HIPPOCAMPUS: EPILEPTOGENIC PROPERTIESR01NS018309 · NINDS · WADSWORTH CENTER · PI SWANN, JOHN WILLIAM · 1985 to 2017
$5.7M
The MAPK Cascade in EpilepsyR01NS039943 · NINDS · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI ANDERSON, ANNE E · 2001 to 2011
$2.9M
Ion Channel Regulation of Excitability in Immature BrainR01NS049427 · NINDS · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI ANDERSON, ANNE E · 2006 to 2010
$1.7M
Mechanisms of regulation of excitability in immature CNSF32NS056664 · NINDS · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI LUGO, JOAQUIN N · 2008 to 2010
$145k
NICHD NIH HHS P30 HD024064NICHD NIH HHS P30HD 024064NINDS NIH HHS F32 NS056664NINDS NIH HHS NS018309NINDS NIH HHS NS039943NINDS NIH HHS NS049427NINDS NIH HHS NS056664NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS018309NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS039943NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS049427
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Children with epilepsy show a high co-morbidity with psychiatric disorders and autism. One of the critical determinants of a child's behavioral outcome with autism and cognitive dysfunction is the age of onset of seizures. In order to examine whether seizures during postnatal days 7-11 result in learning and memory deficits and behavioral features of autism we administered the inhalant flurothyl to induce seizures in C57BL/6J mice. Mice received three seizures per day for five days starting on postnatal day 7. Parallel control groups consisted of similarly handled animals that were not exposed to flurothyl and naïve mice. Subjects were then processed through a battery of behavioral tests in adulthood: elevated-plus maze, nose-poke assay, marble burying, social partition, social chamber, fear conditioning, and Morris water maze. Mice with early-life seizures had learning and memory deficits in the training portion of the Morris water maze (p<0.05) and probe trial (p<0.01). Mice with seizures showed no differences in marble burying, the nose-poke assay, or elevated plus-maze testing compared to controls. However, they showed a significant difference in the social chamber and social partition tests. Mice with seizures during postnatal days 7-11 showed a significant decrease in social interaction in the social chamber test and had a significant impairment in social behavior in the social partition test. Together, these results indicate that early life seizures result in deficits in hippocampal-dependent memory tasks and produce long-term disruptions in social behavior.

Indexed as

Social BehaviorAnimalsAutistic DisorderBehavior, AnimalCognition DisordersConditioning, PsychologicalDisease Models, AnimalExploratory BehaviorFearHippocampusMaleMaze LearningMemory DisordersMiceMice, Inbred C57BLSeizuresAutismAutisticCo-morbidityComorbidityEpilepsyFlurothylLearningMemoryRecurrent seizuresRepetitive behaviorSocial behavior

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PMID24685665
PMCPMC4361039
OpenAlexW2081331893

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