Study may explain how a well-known epilepsy and pain drug works

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 10:49 in Health & Medicine

DURHAM, N.C. -- A Duke University Medical Center researcher who spent years looking for the signals that prompt the brain to form new connections between neurons has found one that may explain precisely how a well-known drug for epilepsy and pain actually works. The finding may also point to new therapies for brain injury and neuropathic pain.

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