New website for the Muir Maxwell Epilepsy Centre

January: The Muir Maxwell Epilepsy Centre has launched its new website.

The Muir Maxwell Epilepsy Centre is a centre based at the University of Edinburgh which aims to investigate the causes of childhood epilepsy and to develop new treatments and public health strategies.

Centre members include people with expertise in brain cell development, synaptic function, genetics, protein biochemistry, cell biology, brain imaging, clinical trials, neuropsychology, epidemiology, public health, informatics, and medical sociology.

As well as working with colleagues in Edinburgh the Centre also collaborates with scientists around the world. By working together, we aim to progress the understanding of epilepsy, from communication between individual brain cells to the development of prevention strategies and new treatments. The Centre's motto is "No epilepsy, better epilepsy".

The Centre forms part of Edinburgh Neuroscience, alongside the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic, the Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Research and the Patrick Wild Centre for Research into Autism, Fragile X Syndrome and Intellectual Disabilities.

Our new centre aspires to revolutionise research and clinical care in epilepsy on an unprecedented scale in the UK and beyond. We aim to encourage, foster and welcome interdisciplinary collaboration since only then can we truly address the many aspects of epilepsy.