Brain imaging has a crucial role in the presurgical assessment of patients with epilepsy.
Structural imaging reveals most cerebral lesions underlying focal epilepsy. Advances in MRI …

Arterial spin labeling (ASL) is a non-invasive MRI technique to measure cerebral blood flow
(CBF). This review provides a practical guide and overview of the clinical applications of …

Extracellular potassium concentration affects the membrane potential of neurons, and, thus,
neuronal activity. Indeed, alterations of potassium levels can be related to neurological …

Diffusion imaging tractography is a valuable tool for neuroscience researchers because it
allows the generation of individualized virtual dissections of major white matter tracts in the …

With a prevalence of 0.8 to 1.2%, epilepsy represents one of the most frequent chronic
neurological disorders; 30 to 40% of patients suffer from drug-resistant epilepsy (that is …

Background: Epilepsy is a chronic brain disease that is caused by various factors and
characterized by recurrent, episodic and temporary central nervous system dysfunction …

Pharmacoresistance occurs in up to 30% of patients with epilepsy, and is most commonly
associated with epilepsy of structural or metabolic origin, abnormal findings on brain …

In patients with medically refractory focal epilepsy who are candidates for epilepsy surgery,
concordant non-invasive neuroimaging data are useful to guide invasive …

In recent years, ultra-high field MRI (7 T and above) has received more interest for clinical
imaging. Indeed, a number of studies have shown the benefits from the application of this …

Objective Although most temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) patients show marked hippocampal
sclerosis (HS) upon pathological examination, 40% present with no significant cell loss but …