Jun 24, 2015 | animals helping humans, Conditions
More than two million people in the US suffer with epilepsy, or more accurately, epileptic seizures. Some seizures are easily controlled with medications, others are not. What exactly is epilepsy? You can think of seizure as a result of an electrical storm in the brain that short circuits other communication. Sometimes it can be localized […]
Jan 28, 2015 | animal research, animals helping humans, Conditions, Medical Research, treatment
Using a broader design, researchers have a new target for epilepsy treatment. Studying individual genes has long been the approach to understanding epilepsy but pulling back, scientists identified a gene network that was highly active in the brain of epileptic patients, and then discovered that an unconnected gene, Sestrin 3 (SESN3), acts as a regulator […]
