Epilepsy

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Podcast

New targets for epilepsy treatment

Associate Professor Reid is developing new drugs for epilepsy, focussing on both genetics and small molecules, to treat more people with epilepsy

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Reading the body’s electrical signals to treat illness

Embedded electrical devices are increasingly treating chronic illnesses, but researchers are now seeking to record and interpret our own electrical signals to predict symptoms

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Go Figure

What is déjà vu? What is déjà vu?

Many of us have had the experience of seeing or doing something and it feeling eerily familiar, but what do we know about what’s happening when we get déjà vu?

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Forecasting the cycle of epileptic seizures

New research throws light on the predictability of seizure cycles for people with epilepsy

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Podcast

The state of the science in an age of cannabis liberalisation

From our archives: As more jurisdictions legalise cannabis, what do we really know about the effects of weed?

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Predicting epileptic seizures, just like the weather

A new tool can predict the likelihood of epileptic seizures, paving the way for a forecasting app that could be used every day

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Health & Medicine

Breakthrough: Medicinal cannabis and severe epilepsy

A major scientific breakthrough finds that a type of medicinal cannabis significantly reduces convulsive seizures in children with a severe form of epilepsy

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Q&A

Q&A: How algorithms are fighting epilepsy

Researchers are crowdsourcing mathematical whizzkids to help predict when a seizure might strike

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Understanding epilepsy

A decade-long mission to make epilepsy better understood has resulted in a new way of classifying the condition, promising more effective treatment for patients

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Podcast

Brain in a dish: the therapeutic potential of stem cells and organoids

Miniature immature organs in dishes, known as organoids, may hold the key to major breakthroughs in treatments for epilepsy and autism, as well as a range of other diseases