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 …

Chronic epilepsy and cognition

CE Elger, C Helmstaedter, M Kurthen - The Lancet Neurology, 2004 - thelancet.com
Cognitive profiles in epilepsy are as heterogenous as the epileptic syndromes themselves;
causes, topography of epileptogenic areas, pathogenetic mechanisms, and the diverse …

Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis.

HG Wieser - Epilepsia (Series 4), 2004 - search.ebscohost.com
Experts discussed the definition, natural history, pathologic features, pathogenesis,
electroclinical, neurophysiological, neuropsychological, structural and functional imaging …

Encoding of emotional memories depends on amygdala and hippocampus and their interactions

MP Richardson, BA Strange, RJ Dolan - Nature neuroscience, 2004 - nature.com
We have studied patients with variable degrees of left hippocampal and amygdala
pathology who performed a verbal encoding task during functional magnetic resonance …

Memory encoding in Alzheimer's disease: an fMRI study of explicit and implicit memory

A Golby, G Silverberg, E Race, S Gabrieli, J O'Shea… - Brain, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia in older adults. Although the
cognitive deficits and pathologic hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease have been well …

Functional brain mapping and its applications to neurosurgery

S Tharin, A Golby - Operative Neurosurgery, 2007 - journals.lww.com
Abstract FUNCTIONAL BRAIN MAPPING may be useful for both preoperative planning and
intraoperative neurosurgical decision making.“Gold standard” functional studies such as …

A functional magnetic resonance imaging study mapping the episodic memory encoding network in temporal lobe epilepsy

MK Sidhu, J Stretton, GP Winston, S Bonelli… - Brain, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Functional magnetic resonance imaging has demonstrated reorganization of memory
encoding networks within the temporal lobe in temporal lobe epilepsy, but little is known of …

Abnormalities in diffusion tensor imaging of the uncinate fasciculus relate to reduced memory in temporal lobe epilepsy

B Diehl, RM Busch, JS Duncan, Z Piao, J Tkach… - …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Aims: To use Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) to explore structural integrity and
connectivity of the uncinate fasciculus (UF) in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and …

Functional MRI predicts post-surgical memory following temporal lobectomy

ML Rabin, VM Narayan, DY Kimberg, DJ Casasanto… - Brain, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Temporal lobectomy is an effective therapy for medically refractory temporal lobe epilepsy
(TLE), but may be complicated by amnestic syndromes. Therefore, pre-surgical evaluation to …

Pre-operative verbal memory fMRI predicts post-operative memory decline after left temporal lobe resection

MP Richardson, BA Strange, PJ Thompson… - Brain, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Functional MRI (fMRI) of cognitive tasks depends on technology widely available in the
clinical sphere, but has yet to show a role in the investigation of patients. We report here the …