Correcting Cortical Defects and Seizures in Treatment-Resistant Epilepsy in Mice (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Correcting Cortical Defects and Seizures in Treatment-Resistant Epilepsy in Mice (1 of 2)

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Diagram illustrating that a FLNA drug blocks abnormal electrical activity in the brain. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 19, 2020, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by L. Zhang at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, CT; and colleagues was titled, "Filamin A inhibition reduces seizure activity in a mouse model of focal cortical malformations."

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[Credit: A. Bordey and L. Zhang]

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