Discovery has implications for understanding epilepsy.

In a study that helps to deconstruct how olfaction is encoded in the brain, neuroscientists at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a type of neuron that appears to help tune, amplify and dampen neuronal responses to chemosensory inputs from the nasal cavity and has applications to understanding the root cause of epileptic seizures

Nature Neuroscience 3/9/15