FAZ health podcast: Why are there still no medications for many epileptics?

The causes of this most common neurological disease are also diverse.

Around 800,000 people in Germany suffer from epilepsy.

Young patients are affected more often, including those over 60 years of age.

Prof. Dr.

Heinz Beck, head of the Laboratory for Experimental Epileptology and Cognition Research at the University of Bonn, talks about the stigmatization of patients, about bitter therapy limitations, but also about his visions of how treatment can be improved.

And he reveals his personal driving force for research in this area.

Lucy Schmidt

Editor in the "Life" department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper.

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