11,848 results match your criteria: "Localization-related Epilepsies on EEG"

Objective: To study microstructural abnormalities in epileptogenic focus and in mirror region by diffusion kurtosis (DK) MRI in patients with focal temporal lobe epilepsy.

Material And Methods: The main group included 12 patients (mean age 35 [30.5; 39.

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Combining three-phase EEG pattern and ipsilateral isolated eye deviation to predict seizure focus in the frontal interhemispheric fissure.

Epilepsy Behav

January 2025

Department of Neurosurgery, Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, University of Tsukuba Hospital, 2-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8576, Japan. Electronic address:

Objective: Identification of seizure focus on the interhemispheric fissure (IHF) is often challenging at the step of scalp video-EEG monitoring on preoperative evaluations. We previously reported ictal three-phase EEG patterns (3Ph-EEG) and isolated eye deviation (isolated ED) to side of the seizure focus during seizures, each of which is available for identifying the seizure focus for frontal IHF (F-IHF). This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of predicting the F-IHF focus using a combination of 3Ph-EEG and isolated ED in patients with frontal lobe epilepsy and the accuracy of predicting lateralization of the F-IHF focus using the predominance of findings.

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Objective: Diagnosing autoimmune limbic encephalitis (ALE) in adults with new-onset seizures can be challenging, especially when seizures represent the predominant manifestation and MRI findings are not straightforward. By comparison with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis (MTLE-HS), this study aimed to identify ictal electro-clinical features that might help clinicians recognize ALE-related seizures.

Methods: This retrospective, multi-centre study analysed the ictal semiology and EEG correlate of 116 video-EEG-captured seizures in 40 ALE patients and 45 ones recorded in 21 MTLE-HS subjects.

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Parvalbumin-positive (PV+) GABAergic interneurons in the dentate gyrus provide powerful perisomatic inhibition of dentate granule cells (DGCs) to prevent overexcitation and maintain the stability of dentate gyrus circuits. Most dentate PV+ interneurons survive status epilepticus, but surviving PV+ interneuron mediated inhibition is compromised in the dentate gyrus shortly after status epilepticus, contributing to epileptogenesis in temporal lobe epilepsy. It is uncertain whether the impaired activity of dentate PV+ interneurons recovers at later times or if it continues for months following status epilepticus.

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Epilepsy-surgery for fronto-basal lesions: Management, outcome, and review of literature.

Seizure

December 2024

University Hospital of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; Clinic for Neurosurgery, Brandenburg Medical School, Neuruppin, Germany. Electronic address:

Background: In this study, we isolated a cohort of patients who have refractory epilepsy who underwent surgery with frontobasal focus. This work aimed to develop prognostic factors associated with a better seizure outcome and identify risk factors determining postoperative morbidity.

Methods: We identified all patients with frontobasal epilepsy who underwent surgery due to refractory epilepsy at the University Hospital Bonn over 22 years.

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Effect of vagal nerve stimulation on patients with bilateral temporal lobe epilepsy.

Epilepsy Behav

December 2024

Epilepsy Program, Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada; Department of Medical Biophysics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada; Department of Paediatrics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address:

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  • * A case study is presented involving a 68-year-old woman with hippocampal sclerosis who experienced IA and mesial temporal lobe epilepsy.
  • * There's limited evidence linking IB/IA to sudden unexpected death in epilepsy, and pacemaker treatment is not commonly used; the focus of care is primarily on reducing seizures and preventing falls.
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Acute effects of Mozart K.448 on interictal epileptiform discharges in adult patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy: A crossover randomized controlled trial.

Seizure

December 2024

Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand; Chulalongkorn Comprehensive Epilepsy Center of Excellence (CCEC), King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, The Thai Red Cross Society, Bangkok, Thailand. Electronic address:

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  • This study investigated if listening to Mozart K.448 could reduce interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs) in adults with drug-resistant focal epilepsy.
  • It used a crossover randomized controlled trial design with 26 participants, who were divided into two groups: one listening to Mozart and the other in silence.
  • Results showed that 61.5% of patients listening to Mozart had significant IED reduction, and the Mozart group had fewer IEDs compared to the control group, suggesting that the music may help manage epilepsy symptoms, especially in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.
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A universal method for seizure onset zone localization in focal epilepsy using standard deviation of spike amplitude.

Epilepsy Res

December 2024

Brainnetome Center, Institute of Automation, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; Xiaoxiang Institute for Brain Health, the Central Hospital of Yongzhou, Yongzhou 425000, China.

Background: Precisely localizing the seizure onset zone (SOZ) is critical for focal epilepsy surgery. Existing methods mainly focus on high-frequency activities in stereo-electroencephalography, but often fail when seizures are not driven by high-frequency activities. Recognized as biomarkers of epileptic seizures, ictal spikes in SOZ induce epileptiform discharges in other brain regions.

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Background: Lesions causing refractory epilepsy, often associated with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), can be undetectable on standard magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in dogs. Automated brain volumetry, widely used in human medicine, can now be applied in veterinary medicine because of the availability of brain atlases.

Objectives: This study aimed to develop an automatic volumetry method, translate the outcomes into the assessment of temporal lobe volumes in dogs with idiopathic epilepsy, and correlate the results with the electroencephalography (EEG) data of epileptiform discharges (EDs).

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  • The study investigates the relationship between comorbid psychiatric disorders and pharmacoresistant temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) associated with mesial temporal sclerosis (MTS), focusing on pre-surgical factors that could influence post-surgical psychiatric outcomes.
  • A retrospective analysis was conducted on 106 patients, with 51 having psychiatric disorders (PD) and 55 without, to identify predictors for post-surgical PD two years after cortico-amygdalohippocampectomy (CAH).
  • Results indicated that previous psychiatric treatment was linked to the development of PD post-surgery, with 35% of patients experiencing remission of PD and 14.5% developing new PD after CAH, underscoring the complexity of
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The epileptogenic network concept: Applications in the SEEG exploration of lesional focal epilepsies.

Neurophysiol Clin

November 2024

INSERM, INS, Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille 13005, France; APHM, Timone Hospital, Epileptology and Cerebral Rhythmology, Marseille 13005, France. Electronic address:

The advent of advanced brain imaging techniques has significantly enhanced the understanding and treatment of focal epilepsies, with identifiable brain lesions present in 80 % of cases. Despite this, surgical outcomes remain varied, often influenced by lesion type and location. Traditional lesion-centric approaches may overlook the complex organization of the epileptogenic zone (EZ), which often extends beyond the visible lesion, emphasizing the need for comprehensive presurgical evaluations like stereo-electroencephalography (SEEG) in some cases.

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Objective: For the pre-surgical evaluation of patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy, stereo-electroencephalographic (SEEG) signals are routinely recorded to identify the epileptogenic zone network (EZN). This network consists of remote brain regions involved in seizure initiation. However, the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying typical SEEG patterns that occur during the transition from interictal to ictal activity in distant brain nodes of the EZN remain poorly understood.

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Seizure localization is important for managing drug-resistant focal epilepsy. Here, the capability of a novel deep learning-based source imaging framework (DeepSIF) for imaging seizure activities from electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings in drug-resistant focal epilepsy patients is investigated. The neural mass model of ictal oscillations is adopted to generate synthetic training data with spatio-temporal-spectra features similar to ictal dynamics.

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Introduction: Our aim was to use magnetoencephalography (MEG) and clinical features to early identify self-limited epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (SeLECTS) patients who evolve into atypical SeLECTS (AS).

Methods: The baseline clinical and MEG data of 28 AS and 33 typical SeLECTS (TS) patients were collected. Based on the triple-network model, MEG analysis included power spectral density representing spectral power and corrected amplitude envelope correlation representing functional connectivity (FC).

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Multimodal and quantitative analysis of the epileptogenic zone network in the pre-surgical evaluation of drug-resistant focal epilepsy.

Neurophysiol Clin

November 2024

Department of Neurosciences, Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Mater Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Australia; Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Australia.

Surgical resection for epilepsy often fails due to incomplete Epileptogenic Zone Network (EZN) localization from scalp electroencephalography (EEG), stereo-EEG (SEEG), and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Subjective interpretation based on interictal, or ictal recordings limits conventional EZN localization. This study employs multimodal analysis using high-density-EEG (HDEEG), Magnetoencephalography (MEG), functional-MRI (fMRI), and SEEG to overcome these limitations in a patient with drug-resistant MRI-negative focal epilepsy.

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Subject-based assessment of large-scale integration dynamics in epileptic brain networks: insights from the intrinsic ignition framework.

Cereb Cortex

October 2024

Computational Neuroscience Group, Center for Brain and Cognition, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, C/ de Ramon Trias Fargas, 25, Barcelona, CP 08018, Spain.

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  • - The study analyzed brain dynamics in 10 individuals with pharmacoresistant focal epilepsy and 30 healthy controls using resting-state functional MRI, focusing on how seizures start and spread.
  • - Findings revealed significant changes in global brain connectivity, with increased integration and flexibility, and specific regions showing paradoxical decreases in ignition within the seizure onset zone.
  • - The results contribute to a better understanding of epilepsy mechanisms and may help in creating diagnostic tools and therapies for seizure management.
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Background: Focal epilepsy is common in children and adults with mitochondrial disease. Seizures are often refractory to pharmacological treatment and, in this patient group, frequently evolve to refractory focal status epilepticus (also known as epilepsia partialis continua). Where this occurs, the long-term prognosis is poor.

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Non-classical event-related potentials reveal attention network alteration in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.

Int J Psychophysiol

December 2024

Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China; National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China. Electronic address:

Objective: To explore the characteristic changes of multiple ERP components associated with attention impairments in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE).

Methods: A total of 92 patients diagnosed with TLE at Xiangya Hospital during May 2022 and January 2023 and 85 healthy controls were included in this study. Participants were asked to complete attention network test with recording of electroencephalogram.

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Enhancing non-invasive pre-surgical evaluation through functional connectivity and graph theory in drug-resistant focal epilepsy.

J Neurosci Methods

January 2025

Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi", University of Bologna, Cesena 47521, Italy.

Background: Epilepsy, characterized as a network disorder, involves widely distributed areas following seizure propagation from a limited onset zone. Accurate delineation of the epileptogenic zone (EZ) is crucial for successful surgery in drug-resistant focal epilepsy. While visual analysis of scalp electroencephalogram (EEG) primarily elucidates seizure spreading patterns, we employed brain connectivity techniques and graph theory principles during the pre-ictal to ictal transition to define the epileptogenic network.

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The part and the whole: how single nodes contribute to large-scale phase-locking in functional EEG networks.

Clin Neurophysiol

December 2024

Department of Information and Communications Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Carrer Roc Boronat 138, Barcelona 08018, Catalonia, Spain.

Objective: The application of signal analysis techniques to electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings from epilepsy patients shows that epilepsy involves not only altered neuronal synchronization but also the reorganization of functional EEG networks. This study aims to assess the large-scale phase-locking of such functional networks and how individual network nodes contribute to this collective dynamics.

Methods: We analyze the EEG recorded before, during and after seizures from sixteen patients with pharmacoresistant focal-onset epilepsy.

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Objective: Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common form of refractory focal epilepsy, and the current clinical diagnosis is based on EEG, clinical neurological history and neuroimaging findings.

Methods: So far, there are no blood-based molecular biomarkers of TLE to support clinical diagnosis, despite the pathogenic mechanisms underlying TLE involving defects in the regulation of gene expression. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as important post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression.

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  • The study investigated how to manage patients with medically resistant epilepsy caused by temporal encephaloceles, focusing on the importance of ancillary testing before surgery to improve surgical outcomes.
  • Researchers analyzed medical records from the Cleveland Clinic over two decades, specifically looking at patients who had surgery for drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy linked to encephaloceles.
  • Results showed that 63% of the 19 patients had successful seizure control one year post-surgery, with detailed patterns of seizure activity revealed through advanced EEG evaluations, indicating a need for personalized surgical strategies.
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  • Epilepsy poses challenges in accurately identifying the epileptogenic zone (EZ) for effective surgical planning, and this study evaluates the effectiveness of a specific spike type (pSpikes) as a biomarker for EZ localization compared to other spike types.
  • An analysis of 2819 interictal spikes from 24 patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy revealed that pSpikes provided better localization accuracy (mean error of 6.8 mm) compared to other spike types like nSpikes and rSpikes, as well as conventional spike imaging.
  • The findings suggest that noninvasive EEG source localization, particularly using pSpikes, is a valuable tool in guiding presurgical planning and improving outcomes for epilepsy patients.
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  • Scientists studied how different types of epilepsy in rats show specific electrical patterns called spike-wave complexes (SWCs) during seizures.
  • They used special software to analyze the frequency of these SWCs in various models of epilepsy, including brain injuries and genetic conditions.
  • The research found that while the spike part of these complexes was similar across different models, the wave part varied a lot, which could help understand seizures better and develop treatments.
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