![Severing the Brain Injury-Epilepsy Link]()
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can cause epilepsy, which involves recurring seizures. The more severe the TBI, the greater the chance that epilepsy will develop. Two years ago, Solomon Moshé, M.D., and Aristea Galanopoulou, M.D., Ph.D., received a NIH major grant to develop better ways to prevent epilepsy following TBI. They have now co-edited a supplement to the March 2019 issue of Neurobiology of Disease on preventing TBI-caused epilepsy, including findings from their research. The supplement describes the scope of the TBI/epilepsy problem; steps to identify biomarkers in humans and in animal models; and how to use those biomarkers to design preventive treatments in the laboratory that might work in humans. Drs. Moshé and Galanopoulou are both professors in the Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology, and the Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience. Dr. Moshé is also the director of the Isabelle Rapin division of child neurology and clinical neurophysiology at Einstein and Montefiore.
Posted on: Tuesday, March 26, 2019