Autoimmune epilepsy outcomes depend heavily on antibody type

Friday, December 4, 2015 - 17:30 in Health & Medicine

Immune dysfunction is increasingly recognized as a cause of drug-resistant epilepsy but how or why the immune system attacks nerve cells -- and the consequences on seizure control -- are not well understood. Two studies explore how different types of autoimmune response elicit markedly different responses in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy.

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