Advanced technology reveals activity of single neurons during seizures
Sunday, March 27, 2011 - 21:30
in Biology & Nature
The first study to examine the activity of hundreds of individual human brain cells during seizures has found that seizures begin with extremely diverse neuronal activity, contrary to the classic view that they are characterized by massively synchronized activity. The researchers also observed pre-seizure changes in neuronal activity both in the cells where seizures originate and in nearby cells.