Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

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

  • Bin Chen,
  • Cenglin Xu,
  • Yi Wang,
  • Wenkai Lin,
  • Ying Wang,
  • Liying Chen,
  • Heming Cheng,
  • Lingyu Xu,
  • Tingting Hu,
  • Junli Zhao,
  • Ping Dong,
  • Yi Guo,
  • Shihong Zhang,
  • Shuang Wang,
  • Yudong Zhou,
  • Weiwei Hu,
  • Shuming Duan,
  • Zhong Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14648-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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The neural circuits through which the substantia nigra pars reticulata (SNr) exerts its role in epilepsy control are not known. Here the authors reveal that a long-range SNr-parafascicular nucleus disinhibitory circuit participates in regulating seizures in temporal lobe epilepsy and inhibition of this circuit can alleviate severity of epileptic seizures.