Through information and podcasts, epilepsy.com's Basic Science Editor, Sloka Iyengar PhD, answers these questions:
- What is basic science?
- Why would someone decide to spend their lives doing basic epilepsy research?
- I want to understand research, but it is so difficult to understand the jargon scientists use! How can I educate myself on what’s going on?
- Who funds basic epilepsy research?
- Where is epilepsy research heading these days? What are the goals?
- What are the tools used to do epilepsy research? Why do you use animals? Can’t you use a computer? How are these animals treated?