Controlling Seizures Through Chemogenetics: A New Technique May Provide a More Precise Way of Targeting Faulty Circuitry in the Brain.

Electricity is the currency of our nervous systems. Thinking and planning, walking and talking, eating and sleeping-all our mental and physical activities are driven by electrical signals moving through the brain. This electrical traffic ebbs and flows in consistent patterns across different brain regions, carrying information from one neuron to the next.