Dendritic structural plasticity and neuropsychiatric disease

MP Forrest, E Parnell, P Penzes - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
The structure of neuronal circuits that subserve cognitive functions in the brain is shaped
and refined throughout development and into adulthood. Evidence from human and animal …

Network analysis for a network disorder: the emerging role of graph theory in the study of epilepsy

BC Bernhardt, L Bonilha, DW Gross - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2015 - Elsevier
Recent years have witnessed a paradigm shift in the study and conceptualization of
epilepsy, which is increasingly understood as a network-level disorder. An emblematic case …

Identification of epilepsy-associated neuronal subtypes and gene expression underlying epileptogenesis

U Pfisterer, V Petukhov, S Demharter… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders, yet its pathophysiology is poorly
understood due to the high complexity of affected neuronal circuits. To identify dysfunctional …

Quantitative analysis of high-frequency oscillations (80–500 Hz) recorded in human epileptic hippocampus and entorhinal cortex

RJ Staba, CL Wilson, A Bragin… - Journal of …, 2002 - journals.physiology.org
High-frequency oscillations (100–200 Hz), termed ripples, have been identified in
hippocampal (Hip) and entorhinal cortical (EC) areas of rodents and humans. In contrast …

Imaging structural and functional brain networks in temporal lobe epilepsy

BC Bernhardt, SJ Hong, A Bernasconi… - Frontiers in human …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Early imaging studies in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) focused on the search for mesial
temporal sclerosis, as its surgical removal results in clinically meaningful improvement in …

Ammon's horn sclerosis: a maldevelopmental disorder associated with temporal lobe epilepsy

IB MD, MT MRCPath, OD Wiestler - Brain pathology, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Ammon's horn sclerosis (AHS) is the major neuropathological substrate in patients with
temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Histopathological hallmarks include segmental loss of …

High‐frequency oscillations recorded in human medial temporal lobe during sleep

RJ Staba, CL Wilson, A Bragin, D Jhung… - Annals of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
The presence of fast ripple oscillations (FRs, 200–500Hz) has been confirmed in rodent
epilepsy models but has not been observed in nonepileptic rodents, suggesting that FRs are …

Effects of type 1 diabetes on gray matter density as measured by voxel-based morphometry

G Musen, IK Lyoo, CR Sparks, K Weinger, J Hwang… - Diabetes, 2006 - Am Diabetes Assoc
The effects of type 1 diabetes and key metabolic variables on brain structure are not well
understood. Sensitive methods of assessing brain structure, such as voxel-based …

Cortical thickness analysis in temporal lobe epilepsy: reproducibility and relation to outcome

BC Bernhardt, N Bernasconi, L Concha, A Bernasconi - Neurology, 2010 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To assess the reproducibility of neocortical atrophy and its clinical significance
across the spectrum of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), in particular with respect to …

The biology of epilepsy genes

JL Noebels - Annual review of neuroscience, 2003 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Mutations in over 70 genes now define biological pathways leading to epilepsy,
an episodic dysrhythmia of the cerebral cortex marked by abnormal network …