Environmental enrichment delays limbic epileptogenesis and restricts pathologic synaptic plasticity

Meng Yang; Ezgi Ozturk; Michael R Salzberg; Sandra Rees; Margaret Morris; Terence J O'Brien; Nigel C Jones

Journal article

Environmental enrichment delays limbic epileptogenesis and restricts pathologic synaptic plasticity

Meng Yang, Ezgi Ozturk, Michael R Salzberg, Sandra Rees, Margaret Morris, Terence J O'Brien, Nigel C Jones

Epilepsia | WILEY-BLACKWELL | Published : 2016

DOI: 10.1111/epi.13299

University of Melbourne Researchers

Nigel Jones Author Medicine - Royal Melbourne Hospital

Sandra Rees Author Anatomy and Neuroscience

Terry O'Brien Author Medicine and Radiology

Michael Salzberg Author Psychiatry

Ezgi Ozturk Author Medicine - Royal Melbourne Hospital

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Funding Acknowledgements

TO, MS, MM, SR and NJ received funding from the NHMRC Project Grant Scheme for this work (#566843 and #1059860). NJ received funding from the NHMRC Career Development Award Scheme (#628466) and from the ARC Future Fellowship Scheme (#13100100). The remaining authors report no conflicts of interest associated with this work. We confirm that we have read the Journal's position on issues involved in ethical publication and affirm that this report is consistent with those guidelines.