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By South SFV Today |
Dec 6, 2023
Stanford Medicine researchers, led by Ivan Soltesz, PhD, have made a groundbreaking discovery in the treatment of epilepsy. Their study, published in Nature Medicine, reveals the potential role of the fasciola cinereum, a previously overlooked region of the hippocampus, in instigating and propagating seizures in patients with drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy.Soltesz emphasized the importance of this finding, stating, "The hippocampus is the best studied part of the brain by far, but there is shockingly little known about the fasciola cinereum." The researchers found...