Fatal Uncoupling: New Cause Of Epileptic Seizured Discovered
Sunday, March 22, 2015 - 13:20
in Health & Medicine
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that affects approximately two percent of the population.Despite extensive research and breakthroughs, one-third of patients are resistant to currently available therapies. A team of researchers as discovered a new cause to explain the development of temporal lobe epilepsy and may lead to future treatments: At an early stage, astrocytes are uncoupled from each other. This results in the extracellular accumulation of potassium ions and neurotransmitters, which cause hyperexcitability of the neurons. read more