Epilepsy Related to Traumatic Brain Injury

Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 286-296

  Pitkänen, Asla ^a,b   Immonen, Riikka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Controlled cortical impact; Epigenetics; Epileptogenesis; Lateral fluid percussion; Magnetic resonance imaging; microRNA; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BIPERIDEN; CEFTRIAXONE; ETIRACETAM; HARKOSERIDE; HUPERZINE A; MICRORNA; RAPAMYCIN; RIMONABANT;

CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); EPIGENETICS; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HUMAN; IMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TRAUMATIC EPILEPSY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURY; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MODEL; EPILEPSY; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; RAT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MICE; RATS;

EID: 84899477162     PISSN: 19337213     EISSN: 18787479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13311-014-0260-7     Document Type: Review

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