HERTIE INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Epilepsy patients are treated in an epilepsy centre, which, together with the departments of Neuropaediatrics, Neurosurgery, and Neuroradiology, is certified by the German Society of Epileptology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Epileptologie). Our specific services encompass inpatient acute care for epileptic seizures and status epilepticus, plus long-term treatment for more complex cases. The whole centre is equipped with 5 video-EEG monitoring beds for differential diagnostics and presurgical evaluations. We thus provide in-depth, multidisciplinary care, including brain stimulation and surgical treatments for epilepsy... Our research focus is on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of brain aging and age-related neurodegenerative diseases, with a special emphasis on the pathogenesis of Alzheimer´s disease and other cerebral proteopathies. Alzheimer's disease is the most frequently occurring age-related dementia, with more than 1 million people affected in Germany. As of 2010 our..