Indispensable for generating epileptic seizures: where, when, how?
Schedule
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
18:00 UTC
Yujiang Wang
Prof
Newcastle University
Host: Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy
Recording
Open recording
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Recording
Available
Host
Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy
Duration
70 minutes
Abstract
In epilepsy research, a holy grail has been the identification and understanding of the "epileptogenic zone" - operationally defined as the (minimal) area or region of the brain is indispensible for the generation of epileptic seizures. The identification of the epileptogenic zone is particularly important for surgical treatments of focal epilepsy patients, but I will highlight some recent clinical, experimental and theoretical work showing that it is also fundamentally linked with our understanding of epilepsy and seizures. I will conclude with a proposal for an updated understanding of the epileptogenic zone and ictogenesis.
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