Listening to Mozart correlated with a drastic reduction in epileptic seizures, new research finds.
Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology could improve the detection of epilepsy by comparing the stiffness of the hippocampus.
Depletion of microglia was synonymous with increased acute seizures and hippocampal neuronal degeneration.
The study, which mixes machine learning with systems theory, was steered by lead author Walter Bomela.
The findings were released in the peer-reviewed journal Epilepsia Open.
The new neurodegenerative condition, distinct from chronic neuroinflammation observed in other illnesses like Alzheimer's disease or frontotemporal dementia, were detailed in a study released in the American Journal of Human Genetics.
The team recruited seven human volunteers among a group of epilepsy patients who already had intracranial electrodes inserted in their brain for standard clinical monitoring to locate their seizures.
A major risk gene for autism is also implicated in epilepsy, a new study found.