The interneuron energy hypothesis: implications for brain disease

O Kann - Neurobiology of disease, 2016 - Elsevier
Fast-spiking, inhibitory interneurons–prototype is the parvalbumin-positive (PV+) basket cell–
generate action potentials at high frequency and synchronize the activity of numerous …

Update on the mechanisms and roles of high‐frequency oscillations in seizures and epileptic disorders

P Jiruska, C Alvarado‐Rojas, CA Schevon, R Staba… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
High‐frequency oscillations (HFO s) are a type of brain activity that is recorded from brain
regions capable of generating seizures. Because of the close association of HFO s with …

The pilocarpine model of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: Over one decade later, with more rodent species and new investigative approaches

M Lévesque, G Biagini, M de Curtis… - Neuroscience & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Fundamental work on the mechanisms leading to focal epileptic discharges in mesial
temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) often rests on the use of rodent models in which an initial …

The repertoire of seizure onset patterns in human focal epilepsies: determinants and prognostic values

S Lagarde, S Buzori, A Trebuchon, R Carron… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objective In this study, we seek to analyze the determinants of the intracranial
electroencephalography seizure onset pattern (SOP) and the impact of the SOP in predicting …

Computational models of epileptiform activity

F Wendling, P Benquet, F Bartolomei, V Jirsa - Journal of neuroscience …, 2016 - Elsevier
We reviewed computer models that have been developed to reproduce and explain
epileptiform activity. Unlike other already-published reviews on computer models of …

An update for epilepsy research and antiepileptic drug development: Toward precise circuit therapy

Y Wang, Z Chen - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2019 - Elsevier
Epilepsy involves neuronal dysfunction at molecular, cellular, and circuit levels. The
understanding of the mechanism of the epilepsies has advanced greatly in the last three …

A disinhibitory nigra-parafascicular pathway amplifies seizure in temporal lobe epilepsy

B Chen, C Xu, Y Wang, W Lin, Y Wang, L Chen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The precise circuit of the substantia nigra pars reticulata (SNr) involved in temporal lobe
epilepsy (TLE) is still unclear. Here we found that optogenetic or chemogenetic activation of …

Dysregulation of GABAergic signaling in neurodevelomental disorders: targeting cation-chloride co-transporters to re-establish a proper E/I balance

E Cherubini, G Di Cristo, M Avoli - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The construction of the brain relies on a series of well-defined genetically and experience-or
activity-dependent mechanisms which allow to adapt to the external environment. Disruption …

Specific imbalance of excitatory/inhibitory signaling establishes seizure onset pattern in temporal lobe epilepsy

M Avoli, M De Curtis, V Gnatkovsky… - Journal of …, 2016 - journals.physiology.org
Low-voltage fast (LVF) and hypersynchronous (HYP) patterns are the seizure-onset patterns
most frequently observed in intracranial EEG recordings from mesial temporal lobe epilepsy …

Parvalbumin-positive inhibitory interneurons oppose propagation but favor generation of focal epileptiform activity

M Sessolo, I Marcon, S Bovetti, G Losi… - Journal of …, 2015 - Soc Neuroscience
Parvalbumin (Pv)-positive inhibitory interneurons effectively control network excitability, and
their optogenetic activation has been reported to block epileptic seizures. An intense activity …