Identification and treatment of surgically-remediable causes of infantile epileptic spasms syndrome

E Macdonald-Laurs, W Dzau, AEL Warren… - Expert Review of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Infantile epileptic spasms syndrome (IESS) is a common developmental and
epileptic encephalopathy with poor long-term outcomes. A substantial proportion of patients …

Why did my seizures start now? Influences of lesion connectivity and genetic etiology on age at seizure onset in focal epilepsy

E Macdonald‐Laurs, AEL Warren, RJ Leventer… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Patients with focal, lesional epilepsy present with seizures at variable ages. Larger
lesion size and overlap with sensorimotor or default mode network (DMN) have been …

Functional profile of perilesional gray matter in focal cortical dysplasia: an fMRI study

B Jin, J Xu, C Wang, S Wang, H Li, C Chen… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Objectives We aim to investigate the functional profiles of perilesional gray matter (GM) in
epileptic patients with focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) and to correlate these profiles with FCD …

[HTML][HTML] Neuropathology and epilepsy surgery–2024 update

I Blümcke - Free Neuropathology, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Neuropathology-based studies in neurosurgically resected brain tissue obtained from
carefully examined patients with focal epilepsies remain a treasure box for excellent insights …