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Epilepsy By Gabrielle Cramer

Brain Scan of an Individual with Frontal Lobe Epilepsy

180,000 Americans are diagnosed with Epilepsy each year

Neuron

EEG Detecting a Seizure

Neuronal Sodium Channel The Neuronal Sodium Channel creates an action potential

Cell membrane properties & the microenvironment of the neuron Intracellular processes Factors determining Hyperexcitability

Partial Seizures

Generalized Seizures

Fig 1. Brain sections of normal Drosophila (top) and a mutant (bottom) that exhibits neurodegeneration indicated by the presence of vacuolar pathology throughout the brain Scott ( 2001) utilized Bang Sensitive Drosophila as model organism for the study of genetic influence on Epilepsy Recent Studies  Use of Drosophila as a model organism when studying excitatory neurotransmitter and potassium ions (Shak, 2003)

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