New excitatory brain circuitry induced by injury: a leading pathophysiology or an also-ran in post-traumatic epilepsy ? (pages 990–996)
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Prince, D. Epilepsy and the too-well-connected brain. Nat Med 3, 957–958 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0997-957
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