Focal decreases of cortical GABAA receptor binding remote from the primary seizure focus: What do they indicate?

Epilepsia

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 240-250

  Juhász, Csaba ^a,b   Asano, Eishi ^b   Shah, Aashit ^b   Chugani, Diane C ^b   Batista, Carlos E A ^b   Muzik, Otto ^b   Sood, Sandeep ^b   Chugani, Harry T ^b  

^a CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b HARPER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

11C flumazenil; GABAA receptors; Intracranial EEG; Neocortical epilepsy; Positron emission tomography; Surgery outcome

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; FLUMAZENIL C 11; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GLIOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FLUMAZENIL; GLIOSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; NEOCORTEX; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58849088871     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01721.x     Document Type: Article

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