All Posts: epilepsy

• Zooming in on Brain Circuits Allows Researchers to Stop Seizure Activity

  WASHINGTON (December 16, 2019) — A team of neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center have found, in animal models, that they can “switch off” epileptic seizures. The findings, published online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), provide the first evidence that while different types of seizures start in varied areas of the […]

  Category: News Release Tags: brain, epilepsy, mind, neuroscience

• Celebrating National Postdoc Appreciation Week

  Reiko Asano, PhD, RN Reiko Asano, PhD, RN, is a postdoc in the department of professional nursing practice studying palliative care in heart failure. Reiko was inspired to study cardiovascular disease after caring for patients suffering from high symptom burden and repeated hospitalizations. Alexandra Taraboletti, PhD Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Alexandra Taraboletti, PhD, is […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Biomedical Graduate Education, biomedical research, cancer, cancer research, epilepsy, Georgetown Lombardi, liver cancer, neuroscience, pharmacology