Tag: Epilepsy
A century after the EEG was discovered, it remains a crucial...
Giridhar Kalamangalam, University of Florida
Jena, Germany, 1924: Working in near-isolation and with painstaking tediousness, the psychiatrist Hans Berger...
Illuminating the brain one neuron and synapse at a time –...
Vivian Lam, The Conversation
Scientists know both a lot and very little about the brain. With billions of neurons...
Silent, subtle and unseen: How seizures happen and why they’re hard...
Jacob Pellinen, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
The dramatic and incapacitating nature of seizures is reflected in the...
CBD and genetic testing provide hope for ‘intractable’ epilepsy in children
Isabel Derera, Tufts University
It can start with a vacant stare, what appear to be muscle twitches or a full-blown seizure. But no matter how...
CBD: The next weapon in the war against opioid addiction?
Jenny Wilkerson, University of Florida and Lance McMahon, University of Florida
CBD, or cannabidiol, is everywhere, with word on the street saying that it can...
Flip a switch and shut down seizures? New research suggests how...
Rochelle Hines, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The brain is a precision instrument. Its function depends on finely calibrated electrical activity triggering the release of...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
