Stress And Epilepsy

Grant number: 566843 | Funding period: 2009 - 2011

Completed

Abstract

High rates of anxiety and depression occur in individuals with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), the most common form of focal epilepsy in adults. Rats that have experienced early life stress show increased anxiety, decreased seizure thresholds and accelerated epilepsy as adults. We have important leads to mechanisms. The proposed study will better understand the mechanisms connecting early life stress and psychiatric disease to adult TLE, and to test interventions that may counteract these effects.

Related publications (5)

Environmental enrichment delays limbic epileptogenesis and restricts pathologic synaptic plasticity

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The effect of amygdala kindling on neuronal firing patterns in the lateral thalamus in the GAERS model of absence epilepsy

Nihan Carcak, Thomas Zheng, Idrish Ali, Ahmad Abdullah, Chris French, Kim L Powell, Nigel C Jones, Leena van Raay, Gil Rind, Filiz Onat, Terence J O'Brien

2014-05-01

Early life maternal separation stress augmentation of limbic epileptogenesis: The role of corticosterone and HPA axis programming

Amelia S Koe, Michael R Salzberg, Margaret J Morris, Terence J O'Brien, Nigel C Jones

2014-04-01

Enduring Effects of Early Life Stress on Firing Patterns of Hippocampal and Thalamocortical Neurons in Rats: Implications for Limbic Epilepsy

Idrish Ali, Patrick O'Brien, Gaurav Kumar, Thomas Zheng, Nigel C Jones, Didier Pinault, Chris French, Margaret J Morris, Michael R Salzberg, Terence J O'Brien

2013-06-18

Tissue plasminogen activator does not alter development of acquired epilepsy

Mei-Lyn Tan, Ashley Ng, Puneet S Pandher, Maithili Sashindranath, John A Hamilton, Stephen M Davis, Terence J O'Brien, Robert L Medcalf, Bernard Yan, Nigel C Jones

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