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ReviewEpilepsia2023

Putative roles for homeostatic plasticity in epileptogenesis.

Naoum P Issa, Katherine C Nunn, Shasha Wu, Hiba A Haider, James X Tao

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Review in Epilepsia, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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13citing 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

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Pathophysiology of Status Epilepticus Revisited.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  10. The Relationship Between Sleep, Epilepsy, and Development: a Review.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Naoum P IssaComprehensive Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9247-1341
Katherine C NunnUniversity of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA.
Shasha WuComprehensive Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2461-6323
Hiba A HaiderComprehensive Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7118-3690
James X TaoComprehensive Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7448-2183

Funding

Intermuscular coherence: A novel biomarker for upper motor neuron dysfunction in ALSR01NS116262 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI ISSA, NAOUM P, REZANIA, KOUROSH · 2021 to 2025
$3.0M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS116262
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Homeostatic plasticity allows neural circuits to maintain an average activity level while preserving the ability to learn new associations and efficiently transmit information. This dynamic process usually protects the brain from excessive activity, like seizures. However, in certain contexts, homeostatic plasticity might produce seizures, either in response to an acute provocation or more chronically as a driver of epileptogenesis. Here, we review three seizure conditions in which homeostatic plasticity likely plays an important role: acute drug withdrawal seizures, posttraumatic or disconnection epilepsy, and cyclic seizures. Identifying the homeostatic mechanisms active at different stages of development and in different circuits could allow better targeting of therapies, including determining when neuromodulation might be most effective, proposing ways to prevent epileptogenesis, and determining how to disrupt the cycle of recurring seizure clusters.

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EpilepsyBrainHomeostasisHumansNeuronal PlasticitySeizurescyclic seizuresmechanisms of epileptogenesisposttraumatic epilepsy

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PMID36617338
PMCPMC10015501

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