Why won't it stop? The dynamics of benzodiazepine resistance in status epilepticus

RJ Burman, RE Rosch, JM Wilmshurst, A Sen… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Status epilepticus is a life-threatening neurological emergency that affects both adults and
children. Approximately 36% of episodes of status epilepticus do not respond to the current …

[PDF][PDF] Neural Field Models: A mathematical overview and unifying framework

BJ Cook, ADH Peterson, W Woldman… - Mathematical …, 2022 - mna.episciences.org
Mathematical modelling of the macroscopic electrical activity of the brain is highly nontrivial
and requires a detailed understanding of not only the associated mathematical techniques …

Human interictal epileptiform discharges are bidirectional traveling waves echoing ictal discharges

EH Smith, J Liou, EM Merricks, T Davis, K Thomson… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs), also known as interictal spikes, are large
intermittent electrophysiological events observed between seizures in patients with epilepsy …

A model for focal seizure onset, propagation, evolution, and progression

J Liou, EH Smith, LM Bateman, SL Bruce… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
We developed a neural network model that can account for major elements common to
human focal seizures. These include the tonic-clonic transition, slow advance of clinical …

Role of inhibitory control in modulating focal seizure spread

J Liou, H Ma, M Wenzel, M Zhao, E Baird-Daniel… - Brain, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Focal seizure propagation is classically thought to be spatially contiguous. However,
distribution of seizures through a large-scale epileptic network has been theorized. Here, we …

Multiscale recordings reveal the dynamic spatial structure of human seizures

CA Schevon, S Tobochnik, T Eissa, E Merricks… - Neurobiology of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The cellular activity underlying human focal seizures, and its relationship to key signatures
in the EEG recordings used for therapeutic purposes, has not been well characterized …

[HTML][HTML] Imaging epilepsy in larval zebrafish

DRW Burrows, É Samarut, J Liu, SC Baraban… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Our understanding of the genetic aetiology of paediatric epilepsies has grown substantially
over the last decade. However, in order to translate improved diagnostics to personalised …

Seizure onset patterns predict outcome after stereo‐electroencephalography‐guided laser amygdalohippocampotomy

AJ Michalak, A Greenblatt, S Wu, S Tobochnik… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Stereotactic laser amygdalohippocampotomy (SLAH) is an appealing option for
patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, who often require intracranial monitoring to confirm …

Wheels within wheels: theory and practice of epileptic networks

KA Davis, VK Jirsa, CA Schevon - Epilepsy Currents, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The concept of an epileptic network is based on the longstanding clinical observation that
ictal electroencephalography (EEG) patterns cannot be easily explained by the traditional …

Multiple sources of fast traveling waves during human seizures: Resolving a controversy

ED Schlafly, FA Marshall, EM Merricks… - Journal of …, 2022 - jneurosci.org
During human seizures, organized waves of voltage activity rapidly sweep across the cortex.
Two contradictory theories describe the source of these fast traveling waves: either a slowly …