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Epilepsy and New Treatments
November 29, 2007
Andrew Cole director, epilepsy service, Massachusetts General Hospital

Andrew Cole talks about the neurological disease epilepsy. He illustrates current epilepsy treatments including drug therapeutics, imaging, and genetics, and discusses where future epilepsy research is headed through both biological and technological advances.

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