by Julie Rafferty, Tufts University Credit: Cell Reports Medicine (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2023.100957 Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine and colleagues have identified a small molecule that may help treat people with epilepsy whose condition has become resistant to the benzodiazepine drugs usually used in managing seizures. The research, conducted in laboratory cells and rodents, was published online March...
by Ingrid Fadelli, Medical Xpress Microglia and infiltrating immune cells in brain tissue from patients with DRE. Position and phenotype of clusters on the t-SNE map. Color represents the cluster ID. Credit: Kumar et al, Nature Neuroscience (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-022-01095-5 Epilepsy is a common condition that causes those affected to experience frequent seizures, which are bursts of...
by American Chemical Society In patients with epilepsy, normal neurological activity becomes disrupted, causing debilitating seizures. Now, researchers report in ACS Chemical Neuroscience that they have found a potential new treatment for this disorder by turning to traditional Chinese medicine. Tests of extracts from plants used in these ancient remedies led the team to one...
