Background: Although outcomes of benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BECTS) are frequently excellent, some atypical forms of BECTS, especially electrical status epilepticus in sleep (ESES), are characterized by worse outcomes and negative impacts on cognitive development.
Methods: To explore specific ESES-related brain networks in patients with BECTS, we used resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan patients with BECTS with ESES (n = 9), patients with BECTS without ESES (n = 17), and healthy controls (n = 36). Unbiased seed-based whole-brain functional connectivity (FC) was adopted to explore the connectivity mode of three resting-state cerebral networks: the default mode network (DMN), salience network (SN), and central executive network (CEN).
Results: Compared with the other two groups, patients with BECTS with ESES showed FC in the SN or in the CEN decreased, but not in the DMN. Moreover, we found the FC in the CEN in patients with BECTS without ESES decreased when compared with controls. Our currently intrinsically defined anticorrelated networks strength was disrupted in BECTS and connote greater deactivation than the results from FC for a seed region in children with BECTS.
Conclusion: These results indicated that children with BECTS with ESES showed brain activity altered in the CEN and the SN. The difference of impairment in the SN and CEN may lead to improve the understanding of the underlying neuropathophysiology, and to assess the activity of patients with BECTS with ESES, which is crucial for measuring disease activity, improving patient care, and assessing the effect of antiepilepsy therapy.
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