Overview: The last Kindling Conference was organized by Dr. Juhn Wada and held at the Univer- sity of British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C. , in 1989. In the intervening years, research on kin- dling has proceeded at an explosive pace and significant advances have been made in our understanding of the molecular biological, anatomical, and physiological substrates of kin- dling, as well as in our appreciation of the age-dependent effects and complex behavioral consequences of kindling, its sensitivity to drugs, and its relevance to the clinical epilepsies. In order to review these developments and
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