Interneuron deficits in neurodevelopmental disorders: Implications for disease pathology and interneuron-based therapies.

Eur J Paediatr Neurol

Epilepsy Research Laboratory and Weill Institute for Neurosciences, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA; Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. Electronic address:

Published: January 2020

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