Drug may prevent brain injury epilepsy
An FDA drug, rapamycin, has been found to help prevent forms of epilepsy caused by brain injury. Epilepsy risks increase with the incident of brain injury.
"We hope to shift the focus from stopping seizures to preventing the brain abnormalities that cause seizures in the first place, and our results in the animal models so far have been encouraging," Dr. Michael Wong, senior author of the research, said
The study that included postdoctoral fellow Ling-Hui Zeng appears in the May 27 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience.
