{"id":138647,"date":"2022-04-25T10:02:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T15:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/whole-brain-preclinical-study-illuminates-how-epileptic-seizures-originate"},"modified":"2022-04-25T10:02:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T15:02:36","slug":"whole-brain-preclinical-study-illuminates-how-epileptic-seizures-originate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/whole-brain-preclinical-study-illuminates-how-epileptic-seizures-originate","title":{"rendered":"Whole-Brain Preclinical Study Illuminates How Epileptic Seizures Originate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/whole-brain-preclinical-study-illuminates-how-epileptic-seizures-originate.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: Seizures originate from an excess of excitatory over inhibitory neural activity in confined regions of the brain, and spread only when they overcome strong inhibitory activity in surrounding regions.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Weill Cornell University.<\/p>\n<p>New evidence from a zebrafish model of epilepsy may help resolve a debate into how seizures originate, according to Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators. The findings may also be useful in the discovery and development of future epilepsy drugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Seizures originate from an excess of excitatory over inhibitory neural activity in confined regions of the brain, and spread only when they overcome strong inhibitory activity in surrounding regions. Source: Weill Cornell University. New evidence from a zebrafish model of epilepsy may help resolve a debate into how seizures originate, according to Weill Cornell [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}