Seizures can promote more seizures through maladaptive myelination, new findings suggest
New research in rodent models of generalized epilepsy has demonstrated that absence seizures, or brief, sudden lapses of consciousness, can cause abnormal changes in myelin plasticity, maladaptively leading to progressively more seizures.
In this podcast we spoke to Juliet Knowles, MD, PhD, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, about the research which led to this discovery and the implications this could have on not just epilepsy treatment, but the treatment of other neurological disorders as well.
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