The Interictal Suppression Hypothesis in focal epilepsy: network-level supporting evidence.

ABSTRACT: Why are people with focal epilepsy not continuously having seizures? Previous neuronal signalling work has implicated gamma-aminobutyric acid balance as integral to seizure generation and termination, but is a high-level distributed brain network involved in suppressing seizures? Recent intracranial electrographic evidence has suggested that seizure-onset zones have increased inward connectivity that could be associated with interictal suppression of seizure activity. Accordingly, we hypothesize that seizure-onset zones are actively suppressed by the rest of the brain network during interictal states. Full testing of this hypothesis would require collaboration across multiple domains of neuroscience. We focused on partially testing this hypothesis at the electrographic network level within

SUBMITTER: Johnson GW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10316780 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature