Functional and structural brain networks in epilepsy: What have we learned?

Epilepsia

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1855-1865

  Van Diessen, Eric ^a   Diederen, Sander J H ^a   Braun, Kees P J ^a   Jansen, Floor E ^a   Stam, Cornelis J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognition; Functional and structural networks; Graph theory; Network analysis; Seizure generation

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROLOGIST; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COGNITION; FUNCTIONAL AND STRUCTURAL NETWORKS; GRAPH THEORY; NETWORK ANALYSIS; SEIZURE GENERATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET;

EID: 84887237466     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/epi.12350     Document Type: Review

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