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Post‐traumatic epilepsy: Mechanisms and prevention
Author(s) -
WILLMORE L. JAMES
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1995.tb02166.x
Subject(s) - epileptogenesis , epilepsy , neuroscience , lipid peroxidation , psychology , medicine , oxidative stress
An effective method to disrupt the process of post‐traumatic epilepsy must await scientific understanding of epileptogenesis. If hemorrhage‐induced focal lipid peroxidation is operant, then a strategy designed to disrupt initiation reactions may prove successful.