Imaging in the surgical treatment of epilepsy

JS Duncan - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2010 - nature.com
Medically refractory focal epilepsy is potentially curable by surgery. This Review considers
the application of recent advances in structural and functional brain imaging to increase the …

Language organization and reorganization in epilepsy

MJ Hamberger, J Cole - Neuropsychology review, 2011 - Springer
The vast majority of healthy individuals are left hemisphere dominant for language; however,
individuals with left hemisphere epilepsy have a higher likelihood of atypical language …

Machine learning–XGBoost analysis of language networks to classify patients with epilepsy

L Torlay, M Perrone-Bertolotti, E Thomas, M Baciu - Brain informatics, 2017 - Springer
Our goal was to apply a statistical approach to allow the identification of atypical language
patterns and to differentiate patients with epilepsy from healthy subjects, based on their …

The human amygdala parametrically encodes the intensity of specific facial emotions and their categorical ambiguity

S Wang, R Yu, JM Tyszka, S Zhen, C Kovach… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The human amygdala is a key structure for processing emotional facial expressions, but it
remains unclear what aspects of emotion are processed. We investigated this question with …

Reduced neocortical thickness and complexity mapped in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis

JJ Lin, N Salamon, AD Lee, RA Dutton… - Cerebral …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
We mapped the profile of neocortical thickness and complexity in patients with mesial
temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) and hippocampal sclerosis. Thirty preoperative high …

Characterization of atypical language activation patterns in focal epilepsy

MM Berl, LA Zimmaro, OI Khan, I Dustin… - Annals of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Functional magnetic resonance imaging is sensitive to the variation in language
network patterns. Large populations are needed to rigorously assess atypical patterns …

Atypical language in lesional and nonlesional complex partial epilepsy

WD Gaillard, MM Berl, EN Moore, EK Ritzl… - Neurology, 2007 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: We investigated the relationship between partial epilepsy, MRI findings, and
atypical language representation. Methods: A total of 102 patients (4 to 55 years) with left …

Brain language networks and cognitive outcomes in children with frontotemporal lobe epilepsy

AM Hüsser, P Vannasing, J Tremblay… - Frontiers in Human …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Pediatric frontal and temporal lobe epilepsies (FLE, TLE) have been associated
with language impairments and structural and functional brain alterations. However, there is …

Language Lateralization in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: A Comparison between fMRI and the Wada Test

T Benke, B Köylü, P Visani, E Karner, C Brenneis… - …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Recent studies have claimed that language functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI) can identify language lateralization in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy …

Pre-surgical language map** with functional magnetic resonance imaging

S Bookheimer - Neuropsychology review, 2007 - Springer
Patients with lesions in or near eloquent cortex typically undergo one of several invasive
techniques to prevent loss of function following surgery. One of the most promising potential …