Researchers Tackle Childhood Epilepsy

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 00:14 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have discovered a potential new way to treat childhood epilepsy using a widely available therapeutic drug. In the first use of a mouse model of cortical dysplasia, they introduced the drug rapamycin. Cortical dysplasia is often the cause of childhood epilepsy.

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