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Leaky Regions may cause epilepsy

Submitted by Nelly Khaselev on Mon, 02/25/2008 - 7:49pm.
Yes, I can see how leaky regions may cause seizures...its totally understandable if a part of every cell or almost...has an area that is permeable to sodium regardless of voltage or concentration that action potential would occur randomly and unpredictably causing seizures! However what I don’t understand is how normal people without epilepsy DO NOT just get seizures all the time? Is there something that counter acts the random action potentials produced by the leaky regions?

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