Entering the Matrix It couldn’t have been better named: Epilepsy in English. Because, let’s face it, that’s what we, the majority of the human population (in English-speaking countries anyway!); need when it comes to epilepsy, […]
A famous hoax Anyone in their mid-40s or older might just remember media coverage of a strange phenomenon that appeared in the 1980s in fields in the south of England. “Crop circles” were large, complex […]
Genes and epilepsy A number of epilepsies are caused by mutations in genes. Errors in our DNA code. These mutations stop the gene from being able to make its protein. The gene mutations that most […]
The stars of the brain When you are asked to think about the brain, you probably imagine specialised nerve cells called neurons that send electrical signals back and forth. And when asked about diseases such […]
Brain activity and ion channels In general, brain cells send signals by allowing electrically charged particles called ions to flow in and out of them. The body has many methods of controlling this signalling, but […]
The many lives of ATP Our keenest readers will remember a post from around this time last year about mitochondrial epilepsy. There, we learnt that the cells in our body, including brain cells, rely on […]
It is estimated that in the US alone, almost 200,000 people suffer from drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy. This is a specific sub-set of temporal lobe epilepsy where seizures can’t be adequately controlled by the medications […]
Predicting when seizures are going to happen is a big challenge for people with epilepsy, clinicians and researchers alike. As it stands, there are no reliable ways for someone to know in advance when they […]
We at Epilepsy in English were lucky enough to attend the British Neuroscience Association’s ‘Festival of Neuroscience’ in Dublin. It was a great opportunity to learn what is happening in the neuroscience field in the […]
Our brains are hungry beasts There are around 86 billion (yes, billion) electrically active cells in the average human brain. Each one of these cells can connect to multiple others, adding up to something like […]
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