Modeling Traumatic Brain Injury and Posttraumatic Epilepsy.

Discusses research being done on the mechanisms of epileptogenesis that follow traumatic brain injury. Reference to a study by R. D'Ambrosio et al published in a 2004 issue of "Brain" journal; Factor that hampered the identification of clinically relevant epileptogenic mechanisms and development of effective therapies; Significance of a single episode of severe fluid percussion injury to posttraumatic epilepsy.