Epilepsy affects millions worldwide, yet the precise mechanisms that trigger epilepsy, or recurring seizures, is still not fully understood. For years, scientists have focused mainly on neurons; the brain’s electrical messengers, as the key players. Now, a research collaboration between Aston University and Cardiff University, supported by MCAST and
Epileptic seizures happen when groups of brain cells, or neurons, fire excessively and abnormally, creating sudden bursts of electrical activity that disrupt normal brain function, almost like a lightning storm inside the brain. These disruptions can affect movement, awareness or sensations, and they don’t always look the same. Some seizures involve
At the crack of the 20th century, the French mathematician Henri Poincaré compared science to a house. He stated that science is built on facts just like a house is built of stones. However, he pointed out that, as a pile of stones does not constitute a house, so too a collection of facts does not make a science. I am convinced that we are fortunate
An advisory panel appointed by President Donald Trump's vaccine-sceptic health secretary voted to stop recommending that all newborns in the United States receive a hepatitis B vaccine. The move to end the decades-old recommendation is the panel's latest contentious about-face on vaccine policy since its overhaul by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy
