Study Finds Mossy Cell Degeneration Contributes to Seizure Disorders
Convulsive seizures in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) are serious and can be debilitating and life-threatening. A new study has found that the loss of a group of cells in the brain can contribute no only to seizures in TLE, but also to memory problems that accompany the seizures in the people with the disorder. These cells, called mossy cells for the appearance of moss-like protrusions that cover their cell surface, are found in the hippocampus, a brain area that is known to p