SRC and epilepsy: Specifically Src, as a key regulator of the NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) subtype of glutamate receptors (NMDARs) and NMDAR-dependent synaptic plasticity and excitotoxicity may be crucial for learning and memory, pain, epilepsy and neurodegeneration (Yu and Salter, 1999; Salter and Kalia, 2004).