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  • Team identifies compound with potent antiseizure effects

    Mar 22, 2022 8:45 am by Diana YatesResearch
    U. of I. doctoral candidate Jennifer Walters and molecular and integrative physiology professor Hee Jung Chung. Photo by Michelle Hassel

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    • U. of I. doctoral candidate Jennifer Walters and molecular and integrative physiology professor Hee Jung Chung. Photo by Michelle Hassel

    Researchers studying epileptic seizures of the temporal lobe - the most common type of epilepsy - discovered a compound that reduces seizures in the hippocampus, a brain region where many such seizures originate.