Epileptic networks are intimately connected with the autonomic nervous system, as
exemplified by a plethora of ictal (during a seizure) autonomic manifestations, including …

Stress is a common and important seizure precipitant reported by epilepsy patients. Studies
to date have used different methodologies to identify relationships between epilepsy and …

Stress elicits a variety of psychophysiological responses that show large interindividual
variability. Determining the neural mechanisms that mediate individual differences in the …

Human neuroimaging has had a major impact on the biological understanding of epilepsy
and the relationship between pathophysiology, seizure management, and outcomes. This …

This paper presents a method to induce stress in human subjects during online participation
in research studies without the presence of researchers. In this study, participants in the …

We investigated psychological stress response in the brain regions involved in emotion-
motor-executive control in psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES). 12 PNES patients …

Contemporary theory suggests that prefrontal cortex (PFC) function is associated with
individual variability in the psychobiology of the stress response. Advancing our …

Objective To utilize traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a model for investigating functioning
during acute stress experiences in psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) and to identify …

During the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the whole world faced an unusual
health emergency. Medical care of chronic neurological diseases, such as Epilepsy, is being …

Epilepsy is a common neurological disease, affecting 2.4 million people in the US. Among
the many different forms of the disease, temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is one of the most …