Early Seizures and Hippocampal Pathology

Abstract

The relation of childhood seizures to hippocampal neuron loss, mossy fiber synaptic reorganization, and eventual hippocampal sclerosis was investigated at the Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH.

Keywords

• hippocampal sclerosis
• prenatal cortical dysplasia
• encephalitic lesions