Compositions and methods for detecting, preventing and treating seizures and seizure related disorders

Abstract

The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the detecting, preventing, treating, and empirically investigating seizures and seizure related disorders (e.g., West syndrome, TSC, childhood absence epilepsy, benign focal epilepsies of childhood, juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME), temperol lobe epilepsy, frontal lobe epilepsy, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, occipital lobe epilepsy). In particular, the present invention provides compositions and methods for detecting, treating, preventing and empirical investigating seizures and seizure related disorders through inhibition of mTOR function. In addition, the present invention provides methods and compositions that utilize mTOR inhibiting agents (e.g., rapamycin) in the detecting, preventing, treating, and empirical investigating of seizures and seizure related disorders.

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