Increased body mass index (BMI) associated with late epilepsy onset in patients with temporal encephaloceles: a systematic review and analysis of individual patient data.

Objective: This study investigates the association of Body Mass Index (BMI) and age of epilepsy onset, in patients with epilepsy associated with temporal encephaloceles (TEs).

Methods: A comprehensive PubMed literature review was conducted using the keywords "temporal encephaloceles" and "epilepsy" for identifying articles for the analysis. Inclusion criteria encompassed all evidence levels reporting patients with TE-related epilepsy and documented BMI.

Morphometric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) postprocessing in MRI-negative patients with first unprovoked seizure.

Objective: The aim of the study was to evaluate the benefits of morphometric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) postprocessing in patients presenting with a first seizure and negative MRI results and to investigate these findings in the context of the clinical and electroencephalographic data, seizure recurrence rates, and epilepsy diagnosis in these patients.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 97 MRI scans of patients with first unprovoked epileptic seizure and no evidence of epileptogenic lesion on clinical routine MRI. Morphometric Analysis Program (MAP; v2018), automated postprocessing software, was used to identify subtle, potentially epileptogenic lesions in the three-dimensional T1-weighted MRI data.

Tracing current explanations in memory: A process analysis based on eye-tracking.

Sequential abductive reasoning is the process of finding the best explanation for a set of observations. Explanations can be multicausal and require the retrieval of previously found ones from memory. The theory of abductive reasoning (TAR) allows detailed predictions on what information is stored and retrieved from memory during reasoning.