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Treating epilepsy with physics

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10 Sep 2019
Taken from the September 2019 issue of Physics World.

Millions of people with epilepsy live in dread of unpredictable seizures from this medical condition. Louis Nemzer describes how novel approaches to predicting and treating these events are being developed thanks to advances in our understanding of the physics of the brain

Epilepsy is the world’s most common chronic neurological disorder, affecting one in 100 people. It

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Louis Nemzer is an associate professor of physics at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US
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