Is epilepsy a disease of synaptic transmission?

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Jaideep Kapur. Epilepsy Curr. 2008 Sep-Oct.

. 2008 Sep-Oct;8(5):139-41.

doi: 10.1111/j.1535-7511.2008.00271.x.

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Masking epilepsy by combining two epilepsy genes.
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