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Epilepsy Marked by Neural 'Hub' Network Thursday, March 27, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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An increased number of neuron “hubs” in the epileptic brain may be the root cause for the seizures that characterize the disorder, according to a UC Irvine study. Researchers Robert Morgan and Ivan Soltesz with the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology identified that these hubs – a small number of highly connected neurons – are formed in the hippocampus during the transition from a healthy brain to an epileptic one. (source: today.uci.edu)
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