by University College London CAMK2A-EKC therapy reduces seizure frequency. A. Timeline. B. Heatmap displaying seizure occurrence in each animal injected with either CAMK2A-GFP (gray) or CAMK2A-EKC virus (purple) before and after the treatment (virus injection on day 0). Crosses correspond to days where data acquisition was incomplete. C. Graph displaying the change in number of seizures...
by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have discovered a specific genetic variant in SCN1A, the most common genetic epilepsy, that leads to an earlier onset of epilepsy, with clinical features distinct from other epilepsies. The researchers also identified a potentially effective treatment strategy. The findings...
