Closed-loop stimulation in periods with less epileptiform activity drives improved epilepsy outcomes

DN Anderson, CM Charlebois, EH Smith, TS Davis… - Brain, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In patients with drug-resistant epilepsy, electrical stimulation of the brain in response to
epileptiform activity can make seizures less frequent and debilitating. This therapy, known as …

Hippocampal theta and episodic memory

JH Rudoler, NA Herweg, MJ Kahana - Journal of Neuroscience, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
Computational models of rodent physiology implicate hippocampal theta as a key modulator
of learning and memory (;), yet human hippocampal recordings have shown divergent theta …

Fast ripples reflect increased excitability that primes epileptiform spikes

SA Weiss, I Fried, J Engel Jr, MR Sperling… - Brain …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The neuronal circuit disturbances that drive inter-ictal and ictal epileptiform discharges
remain elusive. Using a combination of extra-operative macro-electrode and micro-electrode …

Prevalence and localization of nocturnal epileptiform discharges in mild cognitive impairment

R Ciliento, K Gjini, K Dabbs, B Hermann… - Brain …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Recent evidence shows that identifying and treating epileptiform abnormalities in patients
with Alzheimer's disease could represent a potential avenue to improve clinical outcome …

Closed-loop neurostimulation for epilepsy leads to improved outcomes when stimulation episodes are delivered during periods with less epileptiform activity

DN Anderson, CM Charlebois, EH Smith, TS Davis… - medRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
In patients with drug-resistant epilepsy, electrical stimulation of the brain in response to
epileptiform activity can make seizures less frequent and debilitating. When effective, this …

Interictal epileptiform discharges contribute to word‐finding difficulty in epilepsy through multiple cognitive mechanisms

AB Silva, MK Leonard, Y Oganian, E D'Esopo… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Cognitive impairment often impacts quality of life in epilepsy even if seizures are
controlled. Word‐finding difficulty is particularly prevalent and often attributed to etiological …

Highlights From the Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society 2022

I Valencia, AL Alexander, DM Andrade… - 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
With more than 6000 attendees between in-person and virtual offerings, the American
Epilepsy Society Meeting 2022 in Nashville, felt as busy as in prepandemic times. An ever …

A platform for brain network sensing and stimulation with quantitative behavioral tracking: Application to limbic circuit epilepsy

V Kremen, V Sladky, F Mivalt, NM Gregg, I Balzekas… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is a common neurological disease characterized by recurrent
focal seizures. These seizures often originate from the mesial temporal limbic networks and …

High-gamma and beta bursts in the Left Supramarginal Gyrus can accurately differentiate verbal memory states and performance

N Sawczuk, DY Rubinstein, MR Sperling… - medRxiv, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The left supramarginal gyrus (LSMG) may mediate attention to memory, and gauge memory
state and performance. We performed a secondary analysis of 142 verbal delayed free …

[PDF][PDF] BRAIN COMMUNICATIONS

SA Weiss, I Fried, J Engel Jr, MR Sperling, RKS Wong… - 2023 - researchgate.net
Spontaneous inter-ictal epileptiform spikes (ie spikes) were first recognized nearly a century
ago in extracellular recordings from animals exposed to chemoconvulsants and in the EEG …