Transient, developmental functional and structural connectivity abnormalities in the thalamocortical motor network in Rolandic epilepsy

TL;DR: This review summarizes the relevant neuroimaging and neuroelectrophysiological techniques for assessing structural and functional brain networks in patients with epilepsy, and extensively analyze the imaging mechanisms, advantages, limitations, and clinical application ranges of each technique.

TL;DR: In this paper , the median nerve SEF conduction time would be abnormal in children with Rolandic epilepsy (RE) and 13 age-matched controls were compared between groups in linear models controlling for height.

TL;DR: Impaired sleep-dependent memory consolidation in children with Rolandic epilepsy is predicted by reduced sleep spindles in the centrotemporal cortex.

TL;DR: An automated labeling system for subdividing the human cerebral cortex into standard gyral-based neuroanatomical regions is both anatomically valid and reliable and may be useful for both morphometric and functional studies of the cerebral cortex.

TL;DR: This large-scale longitudinal pediatric neuroimaging study confirmed linear increases in white matter, but demonstrated nonlinear changes in cortical gray matter, with a preadolescent increase followed by a postadolescent decrease.

TL;DR: A revised definition of epilepsy brings the term in concordance with common use for individuals who either had an age‐dependent epilepsy syndrome but are now past the applicable age or who have remained seizure‐free for the last 10 years and off antiseizure medicines for at least the last 5 years.

TL;DR: It is shown that multi-fibre tractography offers significant advantages in sensitivity when tracking non-dominant fibre populations, but does not dramatically change tractography results for the dominant pathways.