Training Brain Cells to Stop Epileptic Seizures [Video]

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – More than three million Americans suffer from epilepsy. Not knowing when or if a seizure will strike can make living life difficult. Most people can take medications to control it. But up to 30 percent of people who have epilepsy don’t respond to drug therapy. Now, for the first time, a new experimental cell therapy is aimed at eliminating seizures without medication or invasive brain surgery.They can strike anytime, anywhere! Now, a new clinical trial for epilepsy is using a regenerative brain cell procedure to stop seizures.“Our goal, there, is to, actually, achieve seizure freedom,” says Neurosurgeon at UC San Diego Health, Sharona Ben-Haim, MD.Standard epilepsy treatment begins with medications, then removal of the parts of the brain causing the seizures. But there is a risk of damaging healthy brain tissue. Now, doctors at UC San Diego are using MRI guidance to pinpoint the …