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‘Silent seizures’ discovered in patients with Alzheimer’s disease

July 10, 2017 Alzheimer's Disease, deep brain, eeg, epilepsy, epileptic seizures, hippocampus, nonconvulsive seizures, seizures

Deep in the brains of two patients with Alzheimer’s disease, the main memory structure, the hippocampus, displays episodic seizure-like electrical activity. These nonconvulsive hippocampal seizures

From The Labs

From mouse model to human; serendipity leads to human genetic diagnosis

April 24, 2017 ATXN1-CIC, Autism, developmental delay, epilepsy, hyperactivity, intellectual disabilitis, Mouse models, Neuroscience

When Dr. Huda Zoghbi and her colleagues were investigating the role protein complex ATXN1-CIC plays in the normal development of the mouse brain they did not

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The underappreciated astrocyte; a vital link between brain tumors and epileptic seizures

March 30, 2017 astrocyte, brain tumor, epilepsy, glioblastoma, neurons, seizures

The brain has billions of cells of which only 30 percent are neurons. Astrocytes are the predominant cell type of the remaining 70 percent. Surprisingly,

From The Labs

'Leaky calcium' gene linked to sudden cardiac death in epilepsy

October 10, 2016 epilepsy, leaky calcium gene, Neuroscience, RyR2, spreading depolarization, sudden cardiac death

[See video below] Epilepsy is an extremely common disorder affecting people of all ages, from infants through teenagers to older adults. One of the most

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Baylor center seeks to understand deadly outcome in epilepsy

February 23, 2015 Baylor College of Medicine, Center without Walls, Dr. Jeffrey Noebels, epilepsy, Genetics, Graciela Gutierrez, Grants, Houston, molecular and human genetics, National Institute of Health, Neurology, Research, sudden unexpected death in epilepsy, SUDEP

Dr. Jeffrey Noebels, professor of neurology and molecular and human genetics, is leading a new research center of international scientists who seek to answer questions

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BCM doctor’s collaboration with family helps patients with severe form of epilepsy

July 16, 2013 Clinical research, epilepsy, Neuroscience

A patient-doctor relationship turned friendship has now grown into a collaboration that is helping others with a newly-discovered and severe form of infantile onset epilepsy