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Epilepsy

·October 27, 2010·5 min read

Human Thought Can Voluntarily Control Neurons in Brain

Neuroscience research involving epileptic patients with brain electrodes surgically implanted in their medial temporal lobes shows that patients learned to consciously control individual neurons deep in the brain with thoughts.

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·December 10, 2010·5 min read

World’s First Basic Research Institute for Childhood Neurological Diseases Opens

The world's first basic research institute for childhood neurological diseases opened in Houston, Texas and is part of the Texas Children's Hospital. Some of the research the new research insitute will focus on includes childhood neurological diseases such as autism, epilepsy, Rett syndrome, cerebral palsy, ataxias and Batten disease. More details about the new institute are provided in the press release below.

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·March 9, 2011·4 min read

Neural Network Model of 10 Neuron Visual Processing Circuit Created

Neurobiology research combining laser scanning and electron microscopy, novel neuroimaging techniques and neural network modeling is providing new insight into how real neural circuits may behave.

Neurology

·March 30, 2011·1 min read

New Method to Localize Epileptic Focus in Severe Epilepsy

The first two stereo-EEG explorations in Finland were carried out by neurosurgeons of the Epilepsy surgery team in Helsinki University...

Autism Featured Neurology

·April 8, 2011·2 min read

World First: Discovery of a Common Genetic Cause of Autism and Epilepsy

Researchers from the CHUM Research Centre (CRCHUM) have identified a new gene that predisposes people to both autism and epilepsy....

Neuroscience

·June 21, 2011·3 min read

UC Riverside Neuroscientists’ Discovery Could Bring Relief to Epilepsy Sufferers

Maxim Bazhenov and Giri Krishnan used computational model to study epileptic seizures at the molecular level; research could lead to...

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·July 13, 2011·4 min read

Atomic Structure Discovered for a Sodium Channel that Generates Electrical Signals in Living Cells

The achievement opens new possibilities for designing drugs for pain, epilepsy and heart rhythm disturbances Scientists at the University of...

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·July 18, 2011·3 min read

Researchers Find Neural Signature of Mental Time Travel

Almost everyone has experienced one memory triggering another, but explanations for that phenomenon have proved elusive. Now, University of Pennsylvania...

Genetics

·December 16, 2011·4 min read