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ReviewNeurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics2021

Novel Approaches to Prevent Epileptogenesis After Traumatic Brain Injury.

Chris G Dulla, Asla Pitkänen

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Review in Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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33citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Chris G DullaDepartment of Neuroscience, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA. chris.dulla@tufts.edu.
Asla PitkänenA. I. Virtanen Institute, University of Eastern Finland, 70 211, Kuopio, Finland. asla.pitkanen@uef.fi.
Tufts University · USUniversity of Eastern Finland · FI

Funding

The Epilepsy Bioinformatics Study for Antiepileptogenic Therapy (EpiBioS4Rx) Public Engagement CoreU54NS100064 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI ENGEL, JEROME NONE, GALANOPOULOU, ARISTEA S · 2017 to 2021
$21.7M
Voltage Imaging of Astrocyte-Neuron InteractionsR01NS113499 · NINDS · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI DULLA, CHRIS G · 2019 to 2023
$3.7M
The role of beta-catenin in the pathophysiology of infantile spasmsR01NS100706 · NINDS · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI DULLA, CHRIS G · 2018 to 2022
$2.6M
Anticonvulsant screening using chronic epilepsy modelsR33NS096948 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI BERDICHEVSKY, YEVGENY, DUDEK, F. EDWARD · 2020 to 2020
$389k
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS100706NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS113499NINDS NIH HHS R33 NS096948NINDS NIH HHS U54 NS100064
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is defined as an alteration in brain function or other evidence of brain pathology caused by an external force. When epilepsy develops following TBI, it is known as post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE). PTE occurs in a subset of patients suffering from different types and severities of TBI, occurs more commonly following severe injury, and greatly impacts the quality of life for patients recovering from TBI. Similar to other types of epilepsy, PTE is often refractory to drug treatment with standard anti-seizure drugs. No therapeutic approaches have proven successful in the clinic to prevent the development of PTE. Therefore, novel treatment strategies are needed to stop the development of PTE and improve the quality of life for patients after TBI. Interestingly, TBI represents an excellent clinical opportunity for intervention to prevent epileptogenesis as typically the time of initiation of epileptogenesis (i.e., TBI) is known, the population of at-risk patients is large, and animal models for preclinical studies of mechanisms and treatment targets are available. If properly identified and treated, there is a true opportunity to prevent epileptogenesis after TBI and stop seizures from ever happening. With that goal in mind, here we review previous attempts to prevent PTE both in animal studies and in humans, we examine how biomarkers could enable better-targeted therapeutics, and we discuss how genetic variation may predispose individuals to PTE. Finally, we highlight exciting new advances in the field that suggest that there may be novel approaches to prevent PTE that should be considered for further clinical development.

Indexed as

AnimalsAnticonvulsantsAnti-Inflammatory AgentsBrain Injuries, TraumaticCell- and Tissue-Based TherapyEpilepsy, Post-TraumaticGenetic TherapyGenetic VariationHumansInflammation MediatorsAnticonvulsantsAnti-Inflammatory AgentsInflammation MediatorsAnti-epileptogenesisBiomarkerEpileptogenesisPost-traumatic epilepsyTreatment

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PMID34595732
PMCPMC8608993
OpenAlexW3202025306

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