Abstracts

Summary: This session is designed to be a participatory workshop focused on addressing questions of ictogenesis and epileptogenesis in idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) via a cross-disciplinary approach. Four investigators from the fields of molecular neuroscience, thalamocortical network physiology, transgenic animal physiology/behavior, and human/animal neuroimaging will serve as workshop speakers. To provide a basis for discussion, the speakers will use the first half of their presentation time to describe the relevant work from their respective laboratories. In the second half of their allotted presentation time, the speakers and workshop attendees will discuss how the results obtained in the speaker’s experimental system address questions of IGE ictogenesis and epileptogenesis and complement the work done in other experimental systems. Participants will also use this time to “workshop” new experiments that could be performed within the speaker’s area of scientific expertise that would answer questions deemed important to IGE investigators from all disciplines.