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Seizure Damage Reversed In Rats By Inhibitory Drug Targeting Neurologic Pathways
Published December 19, 2011
in Medical News Today
About half of newborns who have seizures go on to have long-term intellectual and memory deficits and cognitive disorders such as autism, but why this occurs has been unknown. In the December 14 Journal of Neuroscience, researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston detail how early-life seizures disrupt normal brain development, and show in a rat model that it might be possible to reverse this pathology by giving certain drugs soon after the seizure.
Seizure Damage Reversed In Rats By Inhibitory Drug Targeting Neurologic Pathways
Filed under: Animal Models, Brain Development, Epilepsy, featured, Psychopharmacology, Synapse, Treatments