So far, Durrant has samples from 42 donors. The tissue comes from 20 frontal lobes, 12 temporal lobes, some parietal or occipital lobes, or the border between the two. Durrant has found that these ...

They stem from damage to areas of the brain involved in forming and accessing memories - particularly the hippocampus in the medial temporal lobe. "Abnormal growth of amyloid and tau interferes ...

MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) -- What started out as an idea is now an interactive book that allows kids to step into an adventure, while also teaching kids about epilepsy. "When we think about what we ...

I had temporal lobe epilepsy from infancy until the age of 12. My seizures began just before I turned one, then stopped for about four years. But when I was five, they returned with a vengeance. At ...

A study suggests that pre-zygotic aneuploidy followed by post-zygotic partial reversion leads to a recurrent form of brain mosaicism-related epilepsy.

PNES differ from neurological seizures with causes such as epilepsy. Learn about stress’s relationship to PNES, panic attacks, and more. For most people, feelings of stress are short-lived.

People with a form of severe epilepsy will now be able to get NHS access to a new drug from UCB, Fintepla, that could significantly reduce their seizures. The NHS will fund Fintepla (fenfluramine ...

I am aware that temporal lobe neocortical tissue derived from epileptic patients ... and was selected as further from the epilepsy focus, and as such considered to be non-epileptic. The analyses has ...

Here, we showed that SAD-B downregulation exerted antiepileptic activity by regulating AMPA receptors in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and in the pentylenetetrazol (PTZ)-induced epileptic ...

Figure 1: A series of four coronal MRI slices. Figure 2: Two flight attendant groups were compared to assess the volume of the temporal lobe and visual spatial cognitive performance.

I feel profoundly lucky. Maybe I overcompensate for living with epilepsy, or maybe my brain is just different, or perhaps it’s a bit of both. With all the focus on my safety and the weight of my ...

Kami Kountcheva | Inaction in neurology in Northern Ireland has been called a “false economy” by Epilepsy Action Northern Ireland manager Carla Smyth. Inaction in neurology in Northern Ireland has ...