The gene neuropilin2 encodes a receptor involved in cell-cell interactions in the brain and plays a key role in regulating ...

New research led by UTHealth Houston scientists uncovered two genes associated with variants linked to epilepsy, which showed specific traits that make them promising diagnostic biomarkers.

Yale researchers identified an underactive mTOR pathway as a cause of lissencephaly and reversed brain malformations in ...

Lissencephaly is a spectrum of rare, genetic disorders in which the brain fails to develop its hallmark folds. The disorders are often associated with seizures and intellectual disability and ...

The disorders are often associated with seizures and intellectual disability and currently ... from the patients' cells for the new study also developed thicker cortex-like structures than healthy ...

which follows the Harmonized Neuroimaging of Epilepsy Structural Sequences (HARNESS-MRI) protocol, and whose added depth allows for insight into the hippocampal regions and medial structures of ...

FOR YOU, GOING THROUGH YOUR ADULT LIFE, NEVER HAVING A SEIZURE, WHAT WAS THAT EXPERIENCE LIKE FOR YOU? IT WAS. IT WAS VERY SURPRISING. I, I ASSUMED THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT I WAS DOING AND ...

Like an omnipresent dark cloud that refuses to go away, the uncertainty of when my next seizure will happen is always there. Dunsiger writes that unexpected kindness from strangers can have a big ...

These pictures can show up problems with the structure, or damage ... MRI with one of these types of epilepsy if medicines have not improved your seizures. The MRI scanner is like a tunnel. It’s about ...

How can someone help me during a tonic-clonic seizure? Our short online first aid course shows you what tonic-clonic seizures can look like, and how to help when someone has one. Visit tonic-clonic ...

If they develop partial seizures, like I said, I haven't found vigabatrin particularly effective. I guess with all the cases I have with spasms and tuberous sclerosis, I would say two thirds of ...