New treatment options for epileptics

Tuesday, 7 July 2009

An 亚洲色吧 scientist and his US colleagues have made a significant breakthrough in the causes of epilepsy, which affects about 50 million people worldwide.

Postdoctoral researcher from the University of 亚洲色吧 and neuroscientists from the in Boulder have revealed for the first time the role that the brain's immune cells play in triggering epileptic seizures.

Their findings, published this month in the international neurology journal , demonstrate that while neurons are responsibl