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  • Study offers insight into underlying causes of seizure disorder in babies

    Aug 3, 2021 8:00 am by Diana YatesResearch
    Researchers Nien-Pei Tsai and Kwan Young Lee. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

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    • Researchers Nien-Pei Tsai and Kwan Young Lee. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

    Researchers discovered that genetic mutations associated with the disease impair a pathway that is involved in building new synapses in the hippocampus, a brain region essential to learning and memory.