缺乏适当对照导致将失神发作误认为创伤后癫痫
神经元与认知
2015-09-22 v1
摘要
在此,我们对D'Ambrosio等人针对Rodgers等人(Rodgers KM, Dudek FE, Barth DS (2015) Progressive, Seizure-Like, Spike-Wave Discharges Are Common in Both Injured and Uninjured Sprague-Dawley Rats: Implications for the Fluid Percussion Injury Model of Post-Traumatic Epilepsy. J Neurosci. 35(24):9194-204. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0919-15.2015.)进行的研究所做的反驳进行了详尽讨论,该研究旨在调查大鼠头部损伤引起的局灶性发作和获得性癫痫发生。本手稿作为我们将发表于《Journal of Neuroscience》的致编辑信的补充文件。我们发现该反驳在所有要点上均有缺陷,特别是在适当对照的使用、实验方法、分析方法以及癫痫诊断标准方面,导致将失神发作误认为创伤后癫痫。
引用
@article{arxiv.1509.05802,
title = {Lack of appropriate controls leads to mistaking absence seizures for post-traumatic epilepsy},
author = {Krista M. Rodgers and F. Edward Dudek and Daniel S. Barth},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.05802},
year = {2015}
}