Professor of Neuroscience and Neurology, University of Virginia
Eugene Meyer III Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Neurology & Director of UVA Brain Institute. Dr. Kapur is an expert in the pathophysiology and animal models of epilepsy, the plasticity of GABAergic transmission, and hormonal regulation of epilepsy. He has served on numerous grant review panels for National Institutes of Health, CURE Epilepsy foundation, Epilepsy Foundation and Epilepsy Research Foundation. He served as the President of the American Epilepsy Society in 2010.
Seizures can cause memory loss, and brain-mapping research suggests one reason why
Feb 02, 2022 08:54 am UTC| Health
Epilepsy is a disease marked by recurrent seizures, or sudden periods of abnormal, excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain. One in 26 people in the U.S. will develop epilepsy at some point in their life....