Primary Recipient

RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

Amount

$770,000.00

Award Date

7/20/2009

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

Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is a common form of medically refractory epilepsy characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures involving the limbic structures, which often requires surgery. Multiple pathophysiological mechanisms have been proposed to expla