Epilepsy can be a really isolating disease ... And then, lastly, is, obviously, we want to understand the actual mechanism of SUDEP, which is more research driven. What makes someone to stop ...

Ph.D., assistant professor in the Ken and Ruth Davee Department of Neurology Division of Epilepsy/Clinical Neurophysiology, have discovered novel mechanisms underlying Dravet syndrome, a rare ...

and the mechanisms by which some antiseizure drugs aggravate seizures in a subset of epileptic patients. Lastly, the demonstration that mutations in Na + channels associated with GABAergic ...

One in ten people will have at least one seizure in their life, but effective treatments for seizures remain very limited, in part due to incomplete understanding of the brain mechanisms involved.

Lacosamide is a functionalized amino acid (with similarity to d-serine) that is approved by the US FDA and EMEA as an adjunctive therapy for partial-onset seizures. Lacosamide is believed to exert ...