A Cure for Epilepsy? Researchers Use Brain Cells to Rid Mice of Epilepsy

Drug-resistant epilepsy can be stopped in mice by transplanting a type of cell into the brain, per a recent study. The one-time transplantation of medial ganglonic eminence (MGE) cells into the hippocampus (the part of the brain associated with seizures) was able to contol seizures in epileptic mice. Researchers conducting the study, a team at the University of California, San Francisco, hope that similar treatment may work in curbing serious forms of epilepsy in humans. Click here for the complete article.