Of the approximately 2 million Americans with a diagnosis of epilepsy who are treated with
antiepileptic drugs, 20 percent continue to have seizures1; this group of patients accounts …

Prefrontal cortex (PFC) mediates an assortment of cognitive functions including working
memory, behavioral flexibility, attention, and future planning. Unlike the hippocampus …

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Presents the concept of human epilepsy as a disorder of large neural networks. Discussion
of how applicable the observations from experimental models are to localization-related …

This second edition of Seizures and Epilepsy, written almost a quarter of a century after the
ground-breaking first edition, is more than an update: it is a complete revision due to …

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

A" brain defibrillator" may be closer than we think. An epileptic seizure involves a
paroxysmal change in the activity of millions of neurons. Feedback control of seizures would …

Parietal and occipital seizures have been investigated relatively little. Recent interest in
seizures of frontal lobe origin has led to a definition of several well‐identifiable clinical …

Epilepsy surgery has seen numerous technological advances in both diagnostic and
therapeutic procedures in recent years. This has increased the number of patients who may …

Purpose: This Monte Carlo simulation work aims at studying a new radiotherapy approach
called proton‐minibeam radiation therapy (pMBRT). The main objective of this proof of …