Memphis, a city where 64% of the population is Black, now has one of the largest genetic databases of people with African ancestry in the United States. This winter, researchers at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, in collaboration with the Regeneron Genetics Center, sequenced the DNA of […]
Every second Monday in February, International Epilepsy Day is commemorated with the aim of raising awareness and educating the public on general about this disease, as well as alert about the urgent need to improve treatment, care and investment in research. As with other brain diseases, fear and ignorance around epilepsy persist, causing many people […]
Blood levels of many commonly used antiepileptic drugs drop dramatically with the onset of pregnancy, report researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Minnesota today in JAMA Neurology. The findings, collected as part of the multicenter study Maternal Outcomes and Neurodevelopmental Effects of Antiepileptic Drugs (MONEAD), explain why many people with epilepsy start […]
Would this be part of the epilepsy treatment furture? EpilepsyU.com Epilepsy is a neurological condition that causes serious damage to the normal functioning of nerve cells. Here’s how stem cell therapy can help treat the condition. Epilepsy, or sezures as it is commonly known, is a neurological condition where the activity of nerve cells […]
Large-scale MRI and genetic datasets are helping us understand the common variants of the genes that help build the human cerebral cortex To map regions of the brain to specific genes, researchers at the University of California – San Diego did genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of the regional cortical surface area and thickness of 39,898 adults and […]
A Yale researcher has received a grant from the Yale Swebilius Pilot Research Program in Epilepsy to study the effects of ketamine in individuals with epilepsy. Sarah Fineberg, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine and an attending psychiatrist at the Connecticut Mental Health Center, will be the principal investigator of […]
