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Biomarker indicates which victims of febrile seizures will later develop the brain disorder

With a major neurology award and $10 million in funding, Dr. Tallie Z. Baram strives to understand early-life brain development

UC Irvine epilepsy conference for healthcare professionals, patients and the public will address emerging roles of exercise, sleep and cognitive training and examine ways to integrate these activities into comprehensive treatment plans. Renowned epilepsy researcher Tallie Z. Baram, M.D., Ph.D., will discuss stress and epilepsy.

Newest Chancellor’s and Distinguished professors join select group

Epilepsy review by UC Irvine neurologist and colleagues shows that identification and treatment of psychiatric, cognitive and social comorbidities is necessary to enhance quality of care and quality of life.

Neuroscientist Ivan Soltesz is recognized as one of world’s leading epilepsy researchers, but when talking about the focus of his work, he sounds more like the young dreamer and poet he was growing up in Budapest. “The brain is the last great frontier,” says Soltesz, UC Irvine Chancellor’s Professor and chair of anatomy & neurobiology. […]

Vinh Nguyen has proven himself a real problem solver.

Dr. Daniela Bota of UCI’s Comprehensive Brain Tumor Program is determined to find ways for cancer patients to avoid “chemo brain.”

All five University of California medical schools participate in the Specialty Care Safety Net Initiative, which currently links their specialists with 40 clinics statewide.

Study identifies central switch responsible for the transformation of healthy brain cells into epileptic ones, opening the way to both treat and prevent temporal lobe epilepsy.