Functional brain connectivity from EEG in epilepsy: Seizure prediction and epileptogenic focus localization

Progress in Neurobiology

Volumn 121, Issue , 2014, Pages 19-35

  van Mierlo, Pieter ^a   Papadopoulou, Margarita ^a   Carrette, Evelien ^a   Boon, Paul ^a   Vandenberghe, Stefaan ^a   Vonck, Kristl ^a   Marinazzo, Daniele ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

EEG; Epilepsy; Epileptic networks; Epileptogenic focus localization; Functional brain connectivity; Seizure prediction

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; BRAIN REGION; CONNECTOME; DEPTH ELECTRODE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DYNAMICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FUNCTIONAL BRAIN CONNECTIVITY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SCALP; SEIZURE; VIDEORECORDING; ANIMAL; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NERVE TRACT; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEIZURES;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN WAVES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEIZURES;

EID: 84908345910     PISSN: 03010082     EISSN: 18735118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2014.06.004     Document Type: Review

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