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A RECENT communication by Herberg and Watkins1 reported that animals are more resistant to convulsions shortly after having had a convulsion than at other times. This note does not debate this temporary elevation of convulsive threshold but rather emphasizes an equally important phenomenon in which, over a longer period of time, the convulsive threshold is reduced.
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GODDARD, G. Development of Epileptic Seizures through Brain Stimulation at Low Intensity. Nature 214, 1020–1021 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2141020a0
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