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Nature Medicine  3, 957 - 958 (1997)
doi:10.1038/nm0997-957

Epilepsy and the too-well-connected brain

David A. Prince

Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Standford University School of Medicine, Standford, California 94305, USA

New excitatory brain circuitry induced by injury: a leading pathophysiology or an also-ran in post-traumatic epilepsy ? (pages 990−996)

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