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A kill switch for epilepsy? China cuts seizures by 92.6% in first human chemogenetic trial (www.scmp.com)
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For people living with refractory epilepsy, the brain is like a city that can suffer a blackout any time lightning strikes. Without warning, an abnormal neural discharge can sweep through the intracranial circuits, leaving behind convulsions, loss of consciousness and years of lingering panic. Around one-third of epilepsy patients worldwide are completely unresponsive to existing medications, while traditional craniotomy resection surgery often carries the risk of irreversible neurological...

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[–] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Skip the marketing, paper at: https://www.nejm.org/doi/abs/10.1056/NEJMc2606815 (although i can't access it right now, and it isn't available on pirate sites)

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    [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    Interesting to see development in this field. I went to Uni with a young woman that had her hemisphere (partially) split here epilepsy was so bad. It was life changing, both in the reduction of epilepsy and the left/right brain split.

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