In what could one day become a new treatment for epilepsy, researchers at UC San Francisco, UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley ...

An international team of researchers has provided a genetic diagnosis for 30 individuals whose condition was undiagnosed for ...

A technique involving the use of light pulses to prevent seizure-like activity in neurons could one day become a new, ...

Credit: Northwestern University The study specifically focused on the CHD2 gene, which causes autism and epilepsy. In 2013, Carvill and colleagues found that in a subset of patients with epilepsy ...

In what could one day become a new treatment for epilepsy, researchers at UC San Francisco, UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley ...

Other aspects of this general problem are under study and include the following: mode of inheritance and genetic characteristics of familial focal epilepsy; the possible relation to other ...

In a 2013 study, Northwestern’s Carvill and her team identified a subset of epilepsy and autism patients with a version of CHD2 that produces too little protein. Advances in gene editing may ...

Study focused on ‘Goldilocks Gene’ CHD2 that causes autism and epilepsy Deletion of long non-coding RNA CHASERR produces too much CHD2 protein in the cell, leaving patients wheelchair-bound ...

In what could one day become a new treatment for epilepsy, researchers at UC San Francisco, UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley have used pulses of light to ...