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Acute and chronic effects of seizures in the developing brain: experimental models.
Epilepsia - 1 Jan 1999
Jensen F E
Abstract excerpt
Clinical experience suggests two major components to the relationship between brain development and epilepsy. First, the maturational state of the immature brain appears to generally decrease seizure threshold and contribute to a different seizure phenotype from the adult. Second, certain forms of seizures, when present during development, may modify brain maturation to result in chronic epilepsy and/or other...
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