Epilepsy cured in mice using brain cells

UCSF scientists controlled seizures in epileptic mice with a one-time transplantation of medial ganglionic eminence cells, which inhibit signaling in overactive nerve circuits, into the hippocampus, a brain region associated with seizures, as well as with learning and memory.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/uoc--eci050313.php