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

8 April 2021 Torie Robinson 1

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 […]

Brain UFO cartoon

Mysterious RNA circles found at sites where epilepsy begins

3 March 2021 David Henshall 0

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 […]

Image of a cartoon brain dancing while listening to music through headphones

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 […]

A microscope image showing orange coloured brain cells called astrocytes

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 […]

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. […]

Microscope image showing fluorescent green brain cells

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 […]

Image of the mouse cerebellum stained with blue and green

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 […]

Dr Marion Hogg looking at brain cells on a compuer screen

Predicting seizures with tRNA fragments

10 August 2019 Gareth Morris 0

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?

30 April 2019 Gareth Morris 2

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

22 February 2019 Gareth Morris 0

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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  • Entering The Matrix: where patients, scientists, and clinicians work together
  • Mysterious RNA circles found at sites where epilepsy begins
  • Dancing to a different tune: TANGO gives hope for Dravet syndrome
  • The unsung stars of the brain
  • Do all Dravet syndrome symptoms result from seizures?

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  • 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 […]

  • Brain UFO cartoon

    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 […]

  • Image of a cartoon brain dancing while listening to music through headphones

    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 […]

  • A microscope image showing orange coloured brain cells called astrocytes

    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. […]

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