Workshop on Neurobiology of Epilepsy appraisal: new systemic imaging technologies to study the brain in experimental models of epilepsy.

ABSTRACT: Modern functional neuroimaging provides opportunities to visualize activity of the entire brain, making it an indispensable diagnostic tool for epilepsy. Various forms of noninvasive functional neuroimaging are now also being performed as research tools in animal models of epilepsy and provide opportunities for parallel animal/human investigations into fundamental mechanisms of epilepsy and identification of epilepsy biomarkers. Recent animal studies of epilepsy using positron emission tomography, tractography, and functional magnetic resonance imaging were reviewed. Epilepsy is an abnormal emergent property of disturbances in neuronal networks which, even for epilepsies characterized by focal seizures, involve widely distributed systems, often in both hemispheres. Functional neuroimaging

SUBMITTER: Dedeurwaerdere S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4057947 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature