Method allows larger number of screens as opposed to models in rodents. Cambria Biosciences presented a poster describing a screening method for antiepileptic drugs that utilizes the genetic model ...

Roughly 60 million people worldwide have epilepsy, a neurological condition characterized by seizures resulting from excessive neural activity. Using a fruit fly model of epilepsy, where seizures ...

Irvine, Calif., Oct. 17, 2012 – UC Irvine and Brown University researchers have created a new fruit fly model of inherited epilepsy that's providing insights into the mechanisms underlying temperature ...

A new study provides potential new targets for treating epilepsy and new fundamental insights into the relationship between neurons and their glial "helper" cells. In eLife, scientists at MIT's ...