Are some types of epilepsy forms of autoimmune disease?
Grant round winners 2008 Antibodies are molecules made by the immune system whose purpose is to protect the body from infections. Occasionally things go wrong and the antibodies attack the body's own t [...]
How to use fMRI to find where memories are processed in the brain
Grant round winners 2008 There is currently a lot of interest worldwide into how to use brain scans to locate memory function in the brain, prior to surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy. Functional magne [...]
The role of adenosine and ATP during seizures
Grant round winners 2007 24 April 2007 Bruno Frenguelli and Nicholas Dale of the School of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, will be looking at two closely-related molecules called adenosine [...]
What happens in the brain just before a seizure starts?
Grant round winners 2007 24 April 2007 John Jefferys, Premysl Jiruska and John Fox, at the Division of Neuroscience, University of Birmingham, are investigating a characteristic pattern of electrical a [...]
A new type of epilepsy syndrome starting in infancy
Grant round winners 2007 13 July 2007 In 2004, a group of researchers at St George's Hospital Medical School in London identified a gene mutation that causes a rare type of severe epilepsy starting in [...]
How is it that seizures damage the brain?
Grant round winners 2007 24 April 2007 It's known that seizures damage the brain, especially if prolonged. That's why status epilepticus (a seizure that doesn't self-terminate, lasting at least 10 cont [...]
Seizures that damage memory: transient epileptic amnesia
Grant round winners 2007 24 April 2007 Many people with epilepsy complain of having problems with their memory. Seizures themselves, anti-epileptic medicines, mood changes and any underlying brain cond [...]
What is the link between febrile seizures in childhood and epilepsy later in life?
About 5% of all children under the age of five years will experience at some point a seizure caused by a fever. These are called febrile seizures. These seizures are not normally serious, and go away w [...]
Refractory convulsive status epilepticus
£6,657 over 3 months (project grant) Dr Richard Appleton, Roald Dahl EEG Unit, Department of Neurology, Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital (Alder Hey); Dr Timothy Martland, Department of Neurology, Ro [...]
Memory decline in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy – could it be stopped?
Despite years of research into the causes of epilepsy and the treatment of seizures, little attention has been paid to the causes of memory loss and depression in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy ( [...]
The effect of being diagnosed with epilepsy on quality of life
Seizures and epilepsy can have a profound impact on a person's quality of life. Up till now, most research on quality of life in epilepsy has been concerned with the quality of life of people with alre [...]
How do women with epilepsy take decisions about pregnancy?
About a third of the 456,000 people with epilepsy in the UK are women of childbearing age (16 to 45 years). Many of these women may become pregnant whilst taking anti-epileptic drugs. We know a great d [...]
