Brain glial cells - a new target for future epilepsy treatment?
Senior consultant and Head of translational epilepsy research within the Epilepsy Research Group of Oslo (ERGO), Kjell Heuser, recently pointed to the glial cells as a possible new target for epilepsy treatment in a reader's letter to the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association. This was also commented on by the Norwegian Brain Council. The authors behind the post are besides Kjell Heuser (pictured), Rune Enger, Toni Berger and Erik Taubøll.
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