Entering The Matrix: where patients, scientists, and clinicians work together
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 […]
Mysterious RNA circles found at sites where epilepsy begins
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 […]
Dancing to a different tune: TANGO gives hope for Dravet syndrome
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 unsung stars of the brain
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 […]
Do all Dravet syndrome symptoms result from seizures?
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 curious multiple lives of ATP in epilepsy
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 […]
Targeting new brain structures to treat temporal lobe epilepsy
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 seizures with tRNA fragments
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 […]
New directions in epilepsy research: treatments of the future?
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 […]
New disease model sheds light on mitochondrial epilepsy
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 […]