Autoimmune epilepsy outcomes depend heavily on antibody type
Friday, December 4, 2015 - 17:30
in Health & Medicine
Immune dysfunction is increasingly recognized as a cause of drug-resistant epilepsy but how or why the immune system attacks nerve cells -- and the consequences on seizure control -- are not well understood. Two studies explore how different types of autoimmune response elicit markedly different responses in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy.