Catastrophic childhood epilepsy: a recent convergence of basic and clinical neuroscience.
Advances in understanding the genetics and underlying pathology of the catastrophic childhood epilepsies are pointing toward treatments.
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Alla
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Katsnelson
Department of Neural Science, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10003, USA.
Gyorgy
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Buzsáki
The Cain Foundation Laboratories, The Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA. jswann@bcm.edu.
John W
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Swann
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