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epilepsy

[ep-uh-lep-see] / ˈɛp əˌlɛp si /


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Researchers are also investigating whether optogenetics could eventually be used to treat neurological conditions, including Parkinson’s and epilepsy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

The 21-year-old, from Netherlee in East Renfrewshire, has Rett Syndrome, a genetic neurological disorder which leaves her unable to speak or move and comes with a range of health problems including epilepsy.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Ketogenic diets were first developed during the 1920s as a treatment for epilepsy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

She has never been diagnosed with an underlying seizure disorder, such as epilepsy, and a medical test to provoke a seizure in Linton after the crash came back with no abnormal brain activity, prosecutors said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Ever since then, the dove has been able to give epilepsy to humans.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Electrophysiology insights could guide more sophisticated monitoring of cortical epilepsies and possibly other focal epilepsies as well.

From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014

Still, about 30% of epilepsies do not respond to pharmaceuticals, which prompted the search for alternative treatments.

From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014

But dentate gating seems to break down in temporal-lobe epilepsies affecting the hippocampus, resulting in unrestrained, synchronized firing of granule cells.

From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014

In contrast to many of the focal epilepsies, it is the inhibitory response of interneurons that fuels absence seizures.

From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2014

"Dan was frothing dreadful, and his legs was twitchin' like one in the epilepsies."

From Verner's Pride by Mrs. Henry Wood


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