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Uncontrolled Brain Activity Linked to Epilepsy

Researchers have shed new light on the mechanism behind epilepsy attacks in the brain, revealing a potential new target for drug treatment.
Around 3 million people in the US have some form of epilepsy. Until recently the focus of research has been on cells called neurons, but a US study points to a completely different cell.

Nature Neuroscience journal reports its behavior may be key to uncontrolled brain activity behind the condition.

Epilepsy attacks, which can manifest as fits in some people, or "absences" in others, are caused by too much electrical signaling from the brain's neurons.

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