Many potentially efficient drugs have been created to treat neurological disorders, but they cannot be used in practice. Typically, for a condition such as epilepsy, it is essential to act a... Read more
A new treatment for drug-resistant epilepsy with the potential to suppress seizures ‘on demand’ with a pill, similar to how you might take painkillers when you feel a headache coming on, has... Read more
A possible new therapeutic approach to managing autism New research in mice suggests that autism is characterized by reduced activity of inhibitory neurons and increased activity of excitato... Read more
Any fears of impending mind control are, at a minimum, premature, said Greely A brain region activated when people are asked to perform mathematical calculations in an experimental setting i... Read more
UC San Francisco Cell Therapy Raises Hope for Severe Human Forms Epilepsy that does not respond to drugs can be halted in adult mice by transplanting a specific type of cell into the brain,... Read more
A small device implanted in the brain has accurately predicted epilepsy seizures in humans in a world-first study led by Professor Mark Cook, Chair of Medicine at the University of Melbourn... Read more
An innovative new study merges engineering and clinical expertise to develop a revolutionary method to diagnose and treat epilepsy patients. Researchers from the University of Minnesota and... Read more
Electrical stimulation, brain “cooling” and drug-delivery devices are all being developed as antiseizure tools Epilepsy affects some 2.7 million Americans—more than Parkinson’s d... Read more
Simple wrist sensors let neurologists collect better data about patients with epilepsy — and could alert patients that they need to seek medical care. In this week’s issue of the journal Neu... Read more