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Weekly Roundup – 25th October – Childhood epilepsies and SUDEP Action Day

25 October 2021 Gareth Morris 0

Hello and welcome to the Epilepsy in English weekly roundup – a new section offering rapid-fire plain English explanations of a few highlights in epilepsy research over the last seven days. Epidemiology of childhood epilepsies […]

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Weekly Roundup – 18th October – New hope for CDKL5 Disorder?

18 October 2021 Gareth Morris 0

Hello and welcome to the Epilepsy in English weekly roundup – a new section offering rapid-fire plain English explanations of a few highlights in epilepsy research over the last seven days. New hope for treatment […]

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Adjusting the brain’s clocks

27 September 2021 Cristina Reschke 0

Since ancient times it has been described that seizures present a cyclical organization. Despite this, only with the wider use of the long-term electroencephalography (or EEG for short) clinicians and scientists have been able to […]

Basic Science

Entering The Matrix: where patients, scientists, and clinicians work together

8 April 2021 Torie Robinson 4

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, […]

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Basic Science

Mysterious RNA circles found at sites where epilepsy begins

3 March 2021 David Henshall 1

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 […]

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Dancing to a different tune: TANGO gives hope for Dravet syndrome

28 January 2021 David Henshall 0

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 […]

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The unsung stars of the brain

5 November 2020 Janosch Heller 0

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 […]

Basic Science

Do all Dravet syndrome symptoms result from seizures?

4 October 2020 Marc-Michel Wilson 0

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 […]

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Basic Science

The curious multiple lives of ATP in epilepsy

2 March 2020 Gareth Morris 0

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 […]

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Basic Science

Targeting new brain structures to treat temporal lobe epilepsy

13 December 2019 Gareth Morris 0

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 […]

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