Descriptions of the brain often focus on the number of brain cells – neurons and the supporting glia cells. The numbers are, of course, immense – 85 billion neurons and a similar number of glia are present inside the human brain. Neurons are information messengers. They use electrical impulses and chemical signals to transmit information between…
A curious thing happens as the brain develops. Well before the brain looks anything like what it will become – just a few weeks after the embryo has formed – a group of cells generated by your immune system move into the brain. Once there, they multiply, disperse, settle down, and send out delicate fine…
Since ancient times it has been described that seizures present a cyclical organization. Despite this, only with the wider use of the long-term electroencephalography (or EEG for short) clinicians and scientists have been able to further identify and classify the seizure patterns. We now know that seizures may happen only at certain times of the…
Entering the Matrix It couldn’t have been better named: Epilepsy in English. Because, let’s face it, that’s what we, the majority of the human population (in English-speaking countries anyway!); need when it comes to epilepsy, epilepsy research and the human brain in general. We need epilepsy researchers to translate all of the otherwise rarely seen…
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