Umair Javaid Chaudhary
MRI Unit, Epilepsy Society,
Chalfont St. Peter, SL9 0RJ
Review Article
Scalp and Intracranial EEG-fMRI in Epilepsy
Author(s): Louis André Van Graan, Louis Lemieux and Umair Javaid ChaudharyLouis André Van Graan, Louis Lemieux and Umair Javaid Chaudhary
The choice of treatment for epilepsy patients relies on the identification and characterization of epileptic discharges and the type of epilepsy. The continued lack of a universally applied gold standard in presurgical evaluation has opened the ways to the investigation of new localizing and mapping tools in difficult cases including simultaneous EEG-fMRI, which can be used to map interictal and ictal discharges-related haemodynamic networks. The rapid increase in the literature on EEG-fMRI attests to its promised contribution in understanding of epilepsy-related and physiological networks of the brain. Its applications to investigate epileptic networks in humans have evolved since the
mid 1990’s, and has yielded a better knowledge of the generation, propagation and particularly localisation of epileptic discharges, as well their interaction with the physiological and pat.. View More»
