Genetic variation in GABA-A receptors confers risk for inherited forms of epilepsy.

Dario Englot, M.D., Ph.D., has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to support his research into better understanding brain connectivity disturbances in patients with focal epilepsy.

Researchers at Vanderbilt University for the first time have demonstrated in a mouse model that aggregation, the “clumping together” of abnormal proteins, can contribute to a severe form of genetic epilepsy.

A novel mechanism could point to new therapies for a group of inherited diseases that share pathological features.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center recently debuted a new minimally invasive surgical treatment for epilepsy.

Vanderbilt engineers have developed a surgical robot designed to perform brain surgery by entering through the cheek instead of the skull.

Defects in the production of certain receptors are linked to the pathogenesis of genetic epilepsies and fever-induced seizures.