Clinical utility of EEG in diagnosing and monitoring epilepsy in adults

WO Tatum, G Rubboli, PW Kaplan, SM Mirsatari… - Clinical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Electroencephalography (EEG) remains an essential diagnostic tool for people with epilepsy
(PWE). The International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology produces new guidelines …

Consciousness without a cerebral cortex: A challenge for neuroscience and medicine

B Merker - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2007 - cambridge.org
A broad range of evidence regarding the functional organization of the vertebrate brain–
spanning from comparative neurology to experimental psychology and neurophysiology to …

Adult epilepsy

JS Duncan, JW Sander, SM Sisodiya, MC Walker - The Lancet, 2006 - thelancet.com
The epilepsies are one of the most common serious brain disorders, can occur at all ages,
and have many possible presentations and causes. Although incidence in childhood has …

Impaired consciousness in epilepsy

H Blumenfeld - The Lancet Neurology, 2012 - thelancet.com
Consciousness is essential to normal human life. In epileptic seizures consciousness is
often transiently lost, which makes it impossible for the individual to experience or respond …

Large scale brain models of epilepsy: dynamics meets connectomics

MP Richardson - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 2012 - jnnp.bmj.com
The brain is in a constant state of dynamic change, for example switching between cognitive
and behavioural tasks, and between wakefulness and sleep. The brains of people with …

Identifying neural drivers with functional MRI: an electrophysiological validation

O David, I Guillemain, S Saillet, S Reyt… - PLoS …, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Whether functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) allows the identification of neural
drivers remains an open question of particular importance to refine physiological and …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular targets for antiepileptic drug development

BS Meldrum, MA Rogawski - Neurotherapeutics, 2007 - Elsevier
This review considers how recent advances in the physiology of ion channels and other
potential molecular targets, in conjunction with new information on the genetics of idiopathic …

Childhood absence epilepsy: behavioral, cognitive, and linguistic comorbidities

R Caplan, P Siddarth, L Stahl, E Lanphier, P Vona… - …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Evidence for a poor psychiatric, social, and vocational adult outcome in childhood
absence epilepsy (CAE) suggests long‐term unmet mental health, social, and vocational …

Deep layer somatosensory cortical neurons initiate spike-and-wave discharges in a genetic model of absence seizures

PO Polack, I Guillemain, E Hu, C Deransart… - Journal of …, 2007 - Soc Neuroscience
Typical absence has long been considered as the prototypic form of generalized
nonconvulsive epileptic seizures. Recent investigations in patients and animal models …

Thalamic synchrony and dynamic regulation of global forebrain oscillations

JR Huguenard, DA McCormick - Trends in neurosciences, 2007 - cell.com
The circuitry within the thalamus creates an intrinsic oscillatory unit whose function depends
critically on reciprocal synaptic connectivity between excitatory thalamocortical relay …