Cause For Severe Pediatric Epilepsy Disorder Identified

Saturday, March 21, 2009 - 22:07 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have discovered that convulsive seizures in a form of severe epilepsy are generated, not on the brain's surface as expected, but from within the memory-forming hippocampus. The scientists hope that their findings -- based on a mouse model of severe epilepsy -- may someday pave the way for improved treatments of childhood epilepsy, which affects more than two percent of children worldwide.

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