Neuroscientists from the University of Michigan created neurons from the skin of patients with Dravet syndrome (a severe form of epilepsy) and found a putative cause of seizures. The study, published in the journal Annals of Neurology, is the first one that used human, patient-derived neurons and contradicts previous studies in mice offering a new mechanism of a sub-type of epilepsy and may help in the search for therapies against many seizure-related diseases.
