What happens during an epileptic seizure? A recent study suggests that seizures occur after certain defense cells in the brain break down.
New results show that a failure or breakdown of the so-called glial cells in the brain underlies the triggering of an epileptic seizure. These results have now been published in Nature Communications.
A failure or breakdown of the so-called glial cells in the brain underlies the triggering of an epileptic seizure.
The answers are not all in yet, but the Yaksi group at NTNU has discovered several of them in collaboration with the Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, the Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine at NTNU and NERF (Neuro Electronics Research Flanders) at VIB, IMEC and KU Leuven in Belgium.