New era of personalised epilepsy management

The approach to epilepsy treatment for over a century has been ‘trial and error’, with no reliable way to predict which medications will work. This article discusses how advances in machine learning and patient-derived stem cells promise a more personalised strategy.

SPS commentary:

This analysis article is one of a collection on brain health, written by leading international experts, outlining the definition of brain health, analysing the impact of major neurological disorders on brain health, and discussing how these disorders might be treated and prevented.

  • What is brain health and why is it important?
  • Decoding the brain through research—the future of brain health
  • Alzheimer’s disease beyond amyloid: strategies for future therapeutic interventions
  • Improving brain health by identifying structure-function relations in patients with neurosurgical disorders
  • Precision biomarkers for mood disorders based on brain imaging
  • A new dawn of preventing dementia by preventing cerebrovascular diseases
  • Rethinking monogenic neurological diseases
  • Promoting global collaboration for brain health research

British Medical Journal

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Brain health analysis collection