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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 many lives of ATP Our keenest readers will remember a post from around this time last year about mitochondrial epilepsy. There, we learnt that […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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