Elimination of anxiety after laser interstitial thermal ablation of the dominant cingulate gyrus for epilepsy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Anxiety is a common symptom of mental health disorders. Surgical treatment of anxiety-related disorders is limited by our understanding of the neural circuitry responsible for emotional regulation. Limbic regions communicate with other cortical and subcortical regions to generate emotional responses and behaviors toward anxiogenic stimuli. Epilepsy involving corticolimbic regions may disrupt normal neural circuitry and present with mood disorders. Anxiety presenting in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy is common; however, anxiety in patients with cingulate epilepsy is not well described. Neurosurgical cases with rare clinical presentations may provide insight into the basic functionality of the human mind and ultimately lead to improvements in surgical treatmen

SUBMITTER: Anand A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9062951 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature