Epilepsy: Genes and Molecular Plasticity

The Neurobiology of Disease Workshop is a yearly educational event at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting.  The 2003 Neurobiology of Disease Workshop focused on epilepsy; specifically, the genetic and molecular aspects of epilespy. This set of on-line lectures shows the original slides and audio from all five lectures given during the 2003 workshop.

The workshop on epilepsy shown here took place on November 7, 2003, at the SfN meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.  It was organized by SfN members Jeffrey L. Noebels, MD, PhD and Marc A. Dichter, MD, PhD.

For neuroscience instructors at all levels:  Please use the information and images contained on this site for your own teaching activities.  You do not need to contact us for permission, however, credit to the workshop is requested. Please email the webmaster if you would like this series of lectures sent to you on a CD.

More information about epilepsy can be found through the American Epilepsy Society.

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2003 NDW SPEAKERS	TITLE click below to view the on-line lecture	Download zipped slides
Dan Lowenstein, MD University of California San Francisco	Epileptogenesis: From Normal to Epilepsy
Peter B. Crino, MD, PhD University of Pennsylvania	Genes, Migration and Hyperexcitable Dysplasias
Jeffrey L. Noebels, MD, PhD Baylor College of Medicine	Channelopathy and Epilepsy
John Huguenard, PhD Stanford Medical School	Pacemaking and Network Synchronization
Frances Jensen, MD Harvard Medical School	Neonatal Seizures and Neuroprotection Strategies