Epilepsy is one of the most common serious brain conditions, affecting over 70 million
people worldwide. Its incidence has a bimodal distribution with the highest risk in infants and …

Structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is of fundamental importance to the diagnosis
and treatment of epilepsy, particularly when surgery is being considered. Despite previous …

Background Detailed neuropathological information on the structural brain lesions
underlying seizures is valuable for understanding drug-resistant focal epilepsy. Methods We …

Candidates for epilepsy surgery must undergo presurgical evaluation to establish whether
and how surgical treatment can stop seizures without causing neurological deficits. Various …

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 …

Cognitive comorbidities are very common in epilepsy and often seen as secondary to
epilepsy or caused by epilepsy. The implicit and sometimes explicit assumption is that …

Neurosurgery is an underutilized treatment that can potentially cure drug‐refractory
epilepsy. Careful, multidisciplinary presurgical evaluation is vital for selecting patients and to …

The epilepsies are one of the most common serious brain disorders, can occur at all ages,
and have many possible presentations and causes. Although incidence in childhood has …

One-third of persons with epilepsy have seizures despite appropriate medical therapy. Drug
resistant epilepsy (DRE) is associated with neurocognitive and psychological decline, poor …

Imaging is pivotal in the evaluation and management of patients with seizure disorders.
Elegant structural neuroimaging with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may assist in …