Mouse Study Sheds Light on How Diet May Affect Epilepsy

<p>WEDNESDAY, May 23 (<span>HealthDay News</span>) — It’s prolonged been famous that a
high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet can revoke <span>epileptic seizures</span> that resist
drug therapy, and now researchers investigate mice contend they consider they know
why.</p>
<p>The formula of their <span>research</span> in mice advise that insurgency to
seizures among people who eat what’s called a <span>ketogenic diet</span> is related to
a protein that modifies <span>cellular metabolism</span> in a brain.</p>
<p>The findings, reported in a May 24 emanate of a journalNeuron, might lead to a growth of new treatments for epilepsy,
according to a researchers during Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard
Medical School in Boston.</p>
<p>“The tie between metabolism and epilepsy has been such a
puzzle,” investigate co-leader <span>Gary Yellen</span>, a highbrow of neurobiology at<spa...