Most Seizure Medications Carry a Life-and-Death Warning – Here’s the Problem
An FDA warning on epilepsy drugs may pose greater risk to patients. Most seizure medications carry a life-and-death warning: Taking this drug may increase suicide…
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Toxic Gas in Rat Brains Reveals Potential for New Dementia Treatments
A potential treatment for dementia and epilepsy could look to reduce the amounts of a toxic gas in the brain has been revealed in a…
Shining a Healing Light on the Brain: Pivotal Discovery Could Treat Epilepsy, Parkinson’s, Depression and Chronic Pain
Scientists make pivotal discovery of method for wireless modulation of neurons with X-rays that could improve the lives of patients with brain disorders. The X-ray…
Complete Genetic and Clinical Analysis Compiled for Gene Linked to Epilepsy and Autism
More than 400 patients with SCN2A-related disorders described in literature have genetic and clinical data mapped. Researchers from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) affiliated with…
MIT BodyCompass: Monitoring Sleep Positions for a Healthy Rest
Wireless device captures sleep data without using cameras or body sensors; could aid patients with Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, or bedsores. MIT researchers have developed a…
Scientists Monitor Brains Replaying Memories in Real Time
NIH study suggests our brains use distinct firing patterns to store and replay memories. In a study of epilepsy patients, researchers at the National Institutes…
Not All Cannabis Is the Same: Pharmaceutical CBD More Effective for Reducing Epileptic Seizures
Study finds artisanal CBD not as effective as pharmaceutical CBD for reducing seizures. Children and teens with epilepsy who were treated with pharmaceutical cannabidiol (CBD)…
Solved: First Structure of Human Cotransporter Protein Family Member
In work that could someday improve treatments for epilepsy, UT Southwestern scientists have published the first three-dimensional structure of a member of a large family…
CBD May Alleviate Seizures, Benefit People With Neurodevelopmental Conditions
UNC School of Medicine researchers led by Ben Philpot, PhD, and Bin Gu, PhD, found that cannabidiol had anti-seizure effects and behavior benefits in animal…
New Technique Fine-Tunes Treatment for Epilepsy Patients
One of three epilepsy patients experience no relief from drugs and are candidates for surgery. An advance by researchers at Yale and the Cleveland Clinic…
Mossy Brain Cells Linked to Memory Loss and Seizures
A small group of cells in the brain can have a big effect on seizures and memory in a mouse model of epilepsy. According to…
New Drug to Quiet Brain, Relieving Epilepsy and Tinnitus
Overly excited nerve cells cause problems like epilepsy and tinnitus. A new drug that selectively affects potassium channels promises relief with fewer side effects. A…
Silk Implants May Help Stop the Progression of Epilepsy
A new study reveals that silk implants, which are placed in the brain and designed to release adenosine, may help stop the progression of epilepsy….
Researchers Control Seizures in Epileptic Mice Using Brain Cells
In a newly published study, researchers detail how they controlled seizures in epileptic mice with the one-time transplantation of medial ganglionic eminence (MGE) cells. Epilepsy…
Researchers Identify BAD as Key Seizure-Suppressing Protein
New research from the Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute examines why a diet high in fat and low in carbohydrates can reduce…