Epilepsy is a neurological condition where individuals are affected by recurrent seizures that correlate with periods of abnormal brain activity. There are various known causes of epilepsy, such as brain damage or a brain tumour, and these are termed symptomatic epilepsy; however, the majority of cases are termed idiopathic epilepsy, having no known root cause. The idiopathic generalized epilepsies (IGE) account for up to a third of all epilepsies, and epidemiological evidence has suggested that they involve complex genetic contributions (see
previous news). Now a new paper in the journal
Nature Genetics reports an association between microdeletions in a region on chromosome 15 and IGE.
Previous research has suggested that the 15q13-q14 region of chromosome 15 may be involved in epilepsy; susceptibility loci for common IGE syndromes have been mapped to the region, and deletions have been associated with various neuropsychiatric conditions, including epilepsy, autism and schizophrenia. The authors of this new study tested the 15q13.3 region in two independent groups of individuals with IGE and matched controls. The research project was part of
EPICURE, an international collaborative research project to study the genomics and neurobiology of epilepsy, with a view to developing novel therapeutic interventions.
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Fact one: Pesticide and dioxin contamination comes from the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breath these days, thanks to the industrial corporations' greediness and absence of conscience.
For the prime example of corporate greediness and absence of conscience we do not have to look any further than Monsanto and its grand dioxin experiment, "Agent Orange."
Consider this in regards to dioxin and the souless, conscienceless corporation Monsanto: Fact two: The Powers That Be are using the war against smokers as another means of individual and societal control.
Fact three: Tobacco smoking does indeed offer health benefits to certain people, though the mainstream scientific community goes to great lengths to conceal this fact, attributing all health problems caused by environmental pollutants to smoking.
This excerpt from the above link in regards to tobacco and health:
From Let's All Light Up! by Laura Knight-Jadczyk: