by Paul Sisson Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain More than 100 locations nationwide are participating in new clinical trials for a drug that shows promise for treating epileptic seizures among patients for whom other medications do not work. The drug, BHV-7000, activates potassium receptors in the brain in a way that appears to modulate seizures, explained...
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Researchers find connections in the brain involved in epileptic seizures
by University College London Overlap map of resection cavities in the patients’ cohort. A map of all resection cavities normalized to the MNI space is shown, with a color bar showing voxel overlapping in a maximum of 20 patients. Credit: Brain (2023). DOI: 10.1093/brain/awad085 Researchers at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology have discovered a network of connections...