Sex Hormones and Prognosis of Neonatal Seizures

Abstract

The influence of testosterone on the development of the substantia nigra pars reticulata (SNR), a brain region involved in the control of seizures, was investigated in male rats castrated at birth, in experiments at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY.

Keywords

• substantia nigra pars reticulata
• neonatal seizures
• hypoxicischemic lesions