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.