Seizing Upon Mechanisms for Impaired Consciousness

Overview

Journal Neuron

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Neurology

Date 2015 Feb 6

PMID 25654251

Citations 3

Authors

Zoya Farzampour

John Huguenard

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Abstract

Transient loss of consciousness associated with focal temporal lobe seizures is a complex phenomenon with life-threatening repercussions. In this issue of Neuron, Motelow et al. (2015) describe decreased cholinergic drive and suppressed subcortical arousal in seizures as a novel mechanism for impaired cortical function.

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