Destroying "undead" cells in the brain may help to relieve a common form of epilepsy, a new lab study suggests.
In the research, published in the journal Annals of Neurology, researchers found that clearing away damaged-but-undying brain cells in mouse models of epilepsy improved the rodents' memory and reduced their number of seizures. The research focused on temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), the world's most common seizure disorder, which affects roughly 50 million people globally.
