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Imagine you’re baking a cake but you don’t have the recipe. Instead of giving up, you decide to study each ingredient and its properties. That’s exactly what scientists are doing to build artificial intelligence (AI) based on our understanding of the brain! They’re taking a bottom-up approach, analyzing the different features of neurons, synapses, and […]
Epileptic seizures, with their synchronized bursts of neural activity, can be tamed! Traditional therapies focus on suppressing seizures during the ictal period, but once the stimulation is turned off, the seizures may return. However, a groundbreaking study introduces a new neurostimulation technique called Forced Temporal Spike-Time Stimulation (FTSTS). By leveraging synaptic plasticity, FTSTS desynchronizes pathological […]
Zonisamide (ZNS; 1,2-benzisoxazole-3-methanesulfonamide) was initially developed and is commonly used as an anticonvulsant drug. However, it has also shown its beneficial effects on Parkinson’s disease (PD), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the midbrain. Recent clinical studies have suggested that ZNS can also have beneficial effects on L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia […]
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