Absence epilepsy – when the brain is like ‘an orchestra without a conductor’
At first, the teacher described her six-year-old student as absentminded, a daydreamer. The boy was having difficulty paying attention in
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‘Silent seizures’ discovered in patients with Alzheimer’s disease
Deep in the brains of two patients with Alzheimer’s disease, the main memory structure, the hippocampus, displays episodic seizure-like electrical
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The underappreciated astrocyte; a vital link between brain tumors and epileptic seizures
The brain has billions of cells of which only 30 percent are neurons. Astrocytes are the predominant cell type of
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