Nature Medicine
7, 1103 - 1105 (2001)
doi:10.1038/nm1001-1103
Epilepsy and all that jazzRam S. Puranam1
& James O. McNamara1, 21
Department of Medicine (Neurology) Duke University Medical Center Durham, North Carolina, USA
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Department of Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Molecular Cancer Biology Duke University Medical Center Durham, North Carolina, USA
puranam@neuro.duke.edu (R.S.P.) or jmc@neuro.duke.edu (J.O.M.)
Reflex epilepsies are caused by different sensory stimuli. The report of a gene that, when mutated, causes epileptic seizures in response to loud noises may provide important clues into the mechanisms of neuronal excitability.
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