Inducing seizures to stop seizures

Published: 11 June 2019

Cortical stimulation-induced seizures have the potential to guide epilepsy surgery, significantly reducing hospital stays...

Using laser light to study how epilepsy arises in the healthy brain

Published: 27 March 2019

Scientists at McGill University have developed a new method to study how seizures arise in the healthy brain. Using laser light guided through ultra-thin optic fibers in the brain of rodents, the...

Neuro researchers receive early-career grants

Published: 11 March 2019

Adrien Peyrache and Stuart Trenholm will study epilepsy and vision...

Epileptic encephalopathy linked to protein trafficking gene

Published: 28 November 2016

Researchers have linked a debilitating neurological disease in children to mutations in a gene that regulates neuronal development through control of protein movement within neuronal cells.

Purple Day March 26 - A World Day for Epilepsy Awareness

Published: 26 March 2015

The Neuro has been at the forefront of epilepsy treatment and research for over half a century. The “Montreal Procedure” developed by Dr. Wilder Penfield and colleagues revolutionized the surgical...

Training your brain using neurofeedback

Published: 20 January 2014

A new brain-imaging technique for a true brain workout

Epilepsy Day 2017

Published: 26 March 2017

March 26 is Purple Day for Epilepsy, a day to support epilepsy awareness worldwide...

How insulin calms brain activity

Published: 30 June 2015

Insulin has long been known as the hormone which controls the body’s sugar levels: humans who lack or are insensitive to insulin develop diabetes. Although insulin is also made and released in the...

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