Table 2.

Summary of articles discussing glutamate and epilepsy

Study	Subjects	Method	Result/Conclusion
Juhász et al. [50]	Epileptic children with Sturge-Weber syndrome	Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic brain imaging	Increased glutamate concentrations observed
Cavus et al. [52]	Epileptic and nonepileptic cortical sites in patients with refractory epilepsy	High-performance liquid chromatography based on microdialysis probes	Elevated extracellular glutamate observed at epileptogenic sites
Perez et al. [53]	Tissue extracted from brains of male Sprague Dawley rats infused with methionine sulfoximine	Glutamate levels measured with immunogold electron microscopy	Glutamine synthetase deficiency leads to increased extracellular glutamate