Primary Recipient

DUKE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$429,000.00

Award Date

5/15/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Chronic pathological pain and certain epileptic syndromes are neuropsychiatric disorders that share an increased female prevalence and refractoriness to treatment. The latter feature is considered to be linked to pathologically increased neuronal excitabi