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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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Dravet syndrome

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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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 […]

Autoimmune Epilepsy

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 learn what is happening in the neuroscience field in the […]

Basic Science

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 can connect to multiple others, adding up to something like […]

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