The interictal suppression hypothesis in focal epilepsy: network-level supporting evidence

GW Johnson, DJ Doss, VL Morgan, DL Paulo, LY Cai… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Why are people with focal epilepsy not continuously having seizures? Previous neuronal
signalling work has implicated gamma-aminobutyric acid balance as integral to seizure …

[HTML][HTML] Brain network organization in focal epilepsy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

E Van Diessen, WJEM Zweiphenning, FE Jansen… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Normal brain functioning is presumed to depend upon interacting regions within large-scale
neuronal networks. Increasing evidence exists that interictal network alterations in focal …

[HTML][HTML] High interictal connectivity within the resection zone is associated with favorable post-surgical outcomes in focal epilepsy patients

P Shah, JM Bernabei, LG Kini, A Ashourvan… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2019 - Elsevier
Patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy are often candidates for invasive surgical
therapies. In these patients, it is necessary to accurately localize seizure generators to …

Regional and global connectivity disturbances in focal epilepsy, related neurocognitive sequelae, and potential mechanistic underpinnings

DJ Englot, PE Konrad, VL Morgan - Epilepsia, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Epilepsy is among the most common brain network disorders, and it is associated with
substantial morbidity and increased mortality. Although focal epilepsy was traditionally …

Seizure‐onset regions demonstrate high inward directed connectivity during resting‐state: An SEEG study in focal epilepsy

S Narasimhan, KB Kundassery, K Gupta… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective In patients with medically refractory focal epilepsy, stereotactic‐
electroencephalography (SEEG) can aid in localizing epileptogenic regions for surgical …

Emergent network topology at seizure onset in humans

MA Kramer, ED Kolaczyk, HE Kirsch - Epilepsy research, 2008 - Elsevier
Epilepsy–the world's most common serious brain disorder–is defined by recurrent
unprovoked seizures that result from complex interactions between distributed neural …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of functional and structural integrity in experimental focal epilepsy: reduced network efficiency coincides with white matter changes

WM Otte, RM Dijkhuizen, MPA van Meer… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Although focal epilepsies are increasingly recognized to affect multiple and
remote neural systems, the underlying spatiotemporal pattern and the relationships between …

Initiation, propagation, and termination of partial (focal) seizures

M de Curtis, M Avoli - Cold Spring …, 2015 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
The neurophysiological patterns that correlate with partial (focal) seizures are well defined in
humans by standard electroencephalogram (EEG) and presurgical depth electrode …

[HTML][HTML] Structural and effective connectivity in focal epilepsy

CS Parker, JD Clayden, MJ Cardoso, R Rodionov… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2018 - Elsevier
Patients with medically-refractory focal epilepsy may be candidates for neurosurgery and
some may require placement of intracranial EEG electrodes to localise seizure onset …

Graph analysis of epileptogenic networks in human partial epilepsy

C Wilke, G Worrell, B He - Epilepsia, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The current gold standard for the localization of the cortical regions responsible for
the initiation and propagation of the ictal activity is through the use of invasive …