Coexistence of symptomatic focal and absence seizures: Video-EEG and EEG-fMRI evidence of overlapping but independent epileptogenic networks

Epilepsia

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1821-1826

  Chassagnon, Serge ^a,b   Hawko, Colin S ^a   Bernasconi, Andrea ^a   Gotman, Jean ^a   Dubeau, François ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Absences; BOLD; EEG fMRI; Focal cortical dysplasia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; CASE REPORT; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; BLOOD; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; COMORBIDITY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

OXYGEN;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN;

EID: 67649945700     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2009.02092.x     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Aghakhani Y, Bagshaw AP, Benar CG, Hawco C, Andermann F, Dubeau F, Gotman J 2004) fMRI activation during spike and wave discharges in idiopathic generalized epilepsy. Brain 127 (Pt 5 1127 1144. (Pubitemid 38623047)
2. Allison JD, Meador KJ, Loring DW, Fiqueroa RE, Wright JC 2000) Functional MRI cerebral activation and deactivation during finger movement. Neurology 54 (1 135 142. (Pubitemid 30038751)
3. Archer JS, Abbott DF, Waites AB, Jackson GD 2003) fMRI "deactivation" of the posterior cingulate during generalized spike and wave. Neuroimage 20 (4 1915 1922. (Pubitemid 37543610)
4. Archer JS, Waites AB, Abbott DF, Federico P, Jackson GD 2006) Event-related fMRI of myoclonic jerks arising from dysplastic cortex. Epilepsia 47 (9 1487 1492. (Pubitemid 44393861)
5. Bagshaw AP, Hawco C, Benar CG, Kobayashi E, Aghakhani Y, Dubeau F, Gotman J 2005) Analysis of the EEG-fMRI response to prolonged bursts of interictal epileptiform activity. Neuroimage 24 (4 1099 1112. (Pubitemid 40164511)
6. Blume WT, Pillay N 1985) Electrographic and clinical correlates of secondary bilateral synchrony. Epilepsia 26 (6 636 641. (Pubitemid 16146139)
7. Burneo JG, Kuzniecky RI, Bebin M, Knowlton RC 2004) Cortical reorganization in malformations of cortical development. Neurology 63 : 1818 1824.
8. Craiu D, Magureanu S, van Emde Boas W 2006) Are absences truly generalized seizures or partial seizures originating from or predominantly involving the pre-motor areas? Some clinical and theoretical observations and their implications for seizure classification. Epilepsy Res 70 (Suppl 1 S141 S155.
9. Detre JA, Alsop DC, Aquirre GK, Sperling MR 1996) Coupling of cortical and thalamic activity in human partial epilepsy: demonstration by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Epilepsia 37 (7 657 661. (Pubitemid 26249999)
10. Gelisse P, Genton P, Raybaud C, Thomas P, Dravet C 2000) Structural brain lesions do not influence the prognosis of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. Acta Neurol Scand 102 (3 188 191. (Pubitemid 30645137)
11. Grosso S, Galimberti D, Gobbi G, Farnetani M, Maria Di Bartolo R, Morgese G, Balestri P 2005) Typical absence seizures associated with localization-related epilepsy: a clinical and electroencephalographic characterization. Epilepsy Res 66 : 13 21. (Pubitemid 41393940)
12. Hamandi K, Salek-Haddadi A, Laufs H, etal 2006) EEG-fMRI of idiopathic and secondarily generalized epilepsies. Neuroimage 31 (4 1700 1710. (Pubitemid 44192498)
13. Hanakawa T, Parikh S, Bruno MK, Hallett M 2005) Finger and face representations in the ipsilateral precentral motor areas in humans. J Neurophysiol 93 (5 2950 2958. (Pubitemid 40570872)
14. Hirsch E 2005) Childhood epilepsy syndromes with both focal and generalized seizures. Acta Neurol Scand 112 (Suppl 181 52 56.
15. Holmes MD, Brown M, Tucker DM 2004) Are "generalized" seizures truly generalized? Evidence of localized mesial frontal and frontopolar discharges in absences Epilepsia 45 (12 1568 1579. (Pubitemid 39648282)
16. Jeha LE, Morris HH, Burgess RC 2006) Coexistence of focal and idiopathic generalized epilepsy in the same patient population. Seizure 15 : 28 34. (Pubitemid 43092092)
17. Lombroso CT 1997) Consistent EEG focalities detected in subjects with primary generalized epilepsies monitored for two decades. Epilepsia 38 (7 797 812. (Pubitemid 27299022)
18. Meeren HK, Pijn JP, Van Luijtelaar EL, Coenen AM, Lopes da Silva FH 2002) Cortical focus drives widespread corticothalamic networks during spontaneous absence seizures in rats. J Neurosci 22 (4 1480 1495. (Pubitemid 34163748)
19. Pondal-Sordo M, Diosy D, Tellez-Zenteno JF, Girvin JP, Wiebe S 2006) Epilepsy surgery involving the sensory-motor cortex. Brain 129 (Pt 12 3307 3314. (Pubitemid 44871444)
20. Scheffer IE, Berkovic SF 1997) Generalized epilepsy with febrile seizures plus: a genetic disorder with heterogeneous clinical phenotypes. Brain 120 : 479 490. (Pubitemid 27153640)
21. Shulman GL, Fiez JA, Corbetta M, Buckner RL, Miezin FM, Raichle ME 1997) Common Blood Flow Changes across Visual Tasks: II. Decreases in Cerebral Cortex. J Cogn Neurosci 19 : 648 663. (Pubitemid 27455556)
22. Tukel K, Jasper H 1952) The electroencephalogram in parasagittal lesions. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol Suppl 4 (4 481 494.
23. Worsley KJ, Liao C, Aston J, Petre V, Duncan GH, Morales F, Evans ACV 2002) A general statistical analysis for fMRI data. Neuroimage 15 : 1 15. (Pubitemid 34852200)