Recent trends in epilepsy and anti-epileptic drugs.
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Despite an abundance of information on clinical and experimental epilepsy and on the drugs effective in its treatment, we 3rc still without a full undentanding of the inherent etiology of the epileptogenic focus and the mechanism of action of anticonvulsant drugs. In recent years allcolion has therefore been mainly directed towards the elucidation of these factors on a neuropharmacological and neurochemical basis.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Indian journal of physiology and pharmacology
دوره 4 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1960