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SUBMITTER: D'Ambrosio R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4264793 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Expert review of neurotherapeutics 20130601 6
Currently available epilepsy drugs only affect the symptoms (seizures), and there is a need for innovative treatments that target the underlying disease. Increasing evidence points to inflammation as a potentially important mechanism in epileptogenesis. In the last decade, a new generation of etiologically realistic syndrome-specific experimental models have been developed, which are expected to capture the epileptogenic mechanisms operating in corresponding patient populations, and to exhibit s ...[more]