How to establish causality in epilepsy surgery

Brain and Development

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 706-720

  Asano, Eishi ^a   Brown, Erik C ^a   Juhász, Csaba ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Concept of the epileptogenic zone; Eloquent cortex; Functional brain mapping; High frequency oscillations (HFOs); Hill's criteria for causality; In vivo animation of event related gamma activity; Infantile spasms; Language; Pediatric epilepsy surgery

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CRANIOTOMY; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GELASTIC SEIZURE; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATION; HUMAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CONCEPT OF THE EPILEPTOGENIC ZONE; ELOQUENT CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL BRAIN MAPPING; HIGH-FREQUENCY OSCILLATIONS (HFOS); HILL'S CRITERIA FOR CAUSALITY; IN-VIVO ANIMATION OF EVENT-RELATED GAMMA ACTIVITY; INFANTILE SPASMS; LANGUAGE; PEDIATRIC EPILEPSY SURGERY;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUSALITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84881370957     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: 18727131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2013.04.004     Document Type: Review

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