Neuroscience at The University of Birmingham

Epilepsy

NB ILAE annual meeting in Birmingham April 1999

see: Seminars and Meetings of interest to neuroscientists in Birmingham

Introduction

Epilepsy is a disorder that affects several percent of the population at some stage of their lives. Normal brain function is interrupted by (usually) intermittent and sudden periods of excessively synchronous neuronal discharge, either full clinical seizures, or brief interictal spikes. Epilepsies come in many forms and have many causes. A central distinction in the classification of epilepsies is between those that start in some identifiable bit of the brain, called focal or partial epilepsies, and those with no well defined site of origin, called primary generalised epilepsies.

Groups at the University of Birmingham

Department of Neurophysiology, Division of Neuroscience (cellular and neuronal network mechanisms of focal epilepsy)

Department of Pharmacology,Division of Neuroscience (pharmacology and neurochemistry of primary generalised and focal epilepsies)

Psychiatry

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Institute of Neurology Epilepsy Research Group (London, UK)