Previous research has suggested that methohexital, a short-term barbiturate, alters activity in the primary epileptogenic area. It can be assumed that drug-induced activation of the epileptogenic focus provides a rapid and safe method to obtain a sufficient amount of information relevant for the lateralization and localisation of the primary epileptogenic area. This study shows that methohexita...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE There are reports of successful resective epilepsy surgery for pediatric patients with epilepsy and generalized epileptiform discharges when they had focal epileptogenic lesions identified by MRI. However, there is limited information regarding adult patients with epilepsy who have both generalized epileptiform discharges and focal epileptogenic lesions. METHODS To inve...

The hallmark of tuberous sclerosis is the presence of multiple cortical tubers. Identifying the epileptogenic tubers is difficult and often requires invasive intracranial electroencephalograph (EEG) monitoring. We report on a patient with tuberous sclerosis upon whom the novel magnetoencephalography (MEG) technique of synthetic aperture magnetometry (SAM) with excess kurtosis (g2) analysis was ...

Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal Epilepsy is one of the most important chronic neurological disorders worldwide affecting more than 50 million people of all ages. Among these, almost 20% of epilepsy cases are uncontrollable and have an unknown source of this abnormal electrical activity. Present techniques for ...

Epileptogenic human hippocampus generates spontaneous energy fluctuations with a wide range of amplitude and temporal variation, which are often assumed to be entirely random. However, the temporal dynamics of these fluctuations are poorly understood, and the question of whether they exhibit persistent long-range temporal correlations (LRTC) remains unanswered. In this paper we use detrended fl...

In the present study, we have demonstrated that multiple first-generation H1-antagonists caused behavioral and EEG seizures in rats. The epileptogenic property of pyrilamine was more potent than either chlorpheniramine or diphenhydramine. In contrast, the second-generation H1-antagonists, loratadine and ebastine did not induce detectable epileptogenic activity. Intraperitoneal injection of hist...

Synchronization of neural oscillations is thought to integrate distributed neural populations into functional cell assemblies. Epilepsy is widely regarded as a disorder of neural synchrony. Knowledge is scant, however, regarding whether ictal changes in synchrony involving epileptogenic cortex are expressed similarly across various frequency ranges. Cortical regions involved in epileptic networ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the value of repeat brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in identifying potential epileptogenic lesions in children with initial MRI-negative focal epilepsy. MATERIALS AND METHODS Our Institutional Review Board approved this retrospective study and waived the requirement for informed consent. During a 15-year period, 257 children (148 boys and 109 girls) with initial M...