Description: Washington, DC-The room overflowed with physicians and others interested in the possibility of finding new epilepsy treatments from plants at the first special interest group meeting on herbs and botanicals. Steven Schachter, MD?, Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School Osher Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, explained that herbal medicines are used for a variety of medical illnesses around the world. It is possible that some herbs might have active ingredients that could be used to control seizures. Most of these plants have not received much scientific study, but that is now changing as researchers at Harvard University and other academic centers conduct experiments to find out how, and if, these herbs and botanicals can stop epileptic activity in the brain.