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Chronic fluoxetine treatment accelerates kindling epileptogenesis in mice independently of 5-HT2A receptors.
Epilepsia - 1 Jul 2018
Li Crystal, Silva Juliana, Ozturk Ezgi, Dezsi Gabriella, O'Brien Terence J, Renoir Thibault, Jones Nigel C
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Patients with epilepsy often have mood disorders, and these are commonly treated with antidepressant drugs. Although these drugs are often successful in mitigating depressive symptoms, how they affect the epileptogenic processes has been little studied. Recent evidence has demonstrated that treatment with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressant drugs adversely promotes epileptogenesis, which...
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