2017 CURE Epilepsy grantee Dr. Jack Parent and his team designed a novel system using human neurons grown in a dish to discover the genes behind focal cortical dysplasia (FCD), a common cause of intractable epilepsy.
“These findings show that seizures are much more common than patients’ medical histories suggest, and that further research is needed to determine if seizures are frequent occurrences in sleep-related deaths in toddlers, and potentially in infants, older children, and adults,”