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Advances in Epilepsy Surgery
In this video, Ziv WIlliams, MD, describes new advances in epilepsy surgery such as responsive neural stimulators, which identify seizure activity, stimulate the areas causing seizures and stop them, and thermal laser ablation, which uses pulses of laser light to remove areas that are causing seizures.
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Loading Dose of Antiepileptic Reduces Seizure Risk During Functional Mapping
The risk of triggering intraoperative seizures during functional mapping of the cortex was cut nearly in half by administering a loading dose of an antiepileptic drug just before surgery.
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Why Mass General Neurologists Are Animated About Big Data
Neurologists at Massachusetts General Hospital are using big data and machine learning to make better and more informed decisions on patient care.
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Barques Are Generated in Posterior Human Hippocampus
Vasileios Kokkinos, PhD, Mark Richardson, MD, PhD, and colleagues have determined that barques—variant findings on intracranial EEG—are highly specific to the posterior human hippocampus, an important observation for differentiating barques from interictal epileptic activity.
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EEG Findings Explain Cognitive Dysfunction in Rolandic Epilepsy
Massachusetts General Hospital researchers have determined that deficits in healthy sleep, not abnormal neural activity, drive the cognitive dysfunction in Rolandic epilepsy. Furthermore, EEG abnormalities that signal poor sleep occur in multiple cortical regions, not just the sensorimotor cortex where seizures occur.
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Aura Type Is Useful When Evaluating Candidates for Anterior Temporal Lobectomy
Ziv M. Williams, MD, and colleagues found that cephalic auras, gustatory auras and visual auras among patients with temporal lobe epilepsy correlated with worse Engel class after anterior temporal lobectomy, whereas patients who reported multiple aura types had a better outcome.
Epilepsy Contributors
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Bob S. Carter, MD, PhD
Chief, Neurosurgery Service
Recent Article
The Future of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience at Mass General: Q&A With Bob S. Carter, MD, PhD
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Eric S. Rosenthal, MD
Associate Director of the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit, Director, Neurocritical Care Fellowship Training Program, Director, Critical Care Neuromonitoring
Recent Article
Minimally Invasive Electrocorticography, Continuous EEG Do Not Reliably Detect Spreading Depolarizations -
Erica Seiguer Shenoy, MD, PhD
Associate Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Chief of the Infection Control Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
Recent Article
Diagnostic Algorithm Supports Evaluation of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients After Initial Negative Test
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Jeffrey S. Schweitzer, MD, PhD
Neurosurgeon
Recent Article
Patient-derived Dopamine Neurons Show Promise in Parkinson's Treatment
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M. Brandon Westover, MD, PhD
Physician Investigator (Cl), Neurology, Mass General Research Institute, Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Associate Neurologist, Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Recent Article
Peak Epileptiform Activity Burden Linked to Neurologic Outcome in a Range of Hospitalized Patients -
Mirela Simon, MD
Medical Director, Intraoperative Neurophysiology Unit, Neurology Service, Massachusetts General Hospital
Recent Article
Direct Cortical Recordings Feasible for Monitoring Thalamocortical Tract During Craniotomy
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Robert (Mark) Richardson, MD, PhD
Director of Functional Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital
Recent Article
Barques Are Generated in Posterior Human Hippocampus
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Sydney Samuel Cash, MD, PhD
Associate, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Recent Article
Basic Rules Identified for Therapeutic Intracranial Stimulation of the Human Brain
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W. Taylor Kimberly, MD, PhD
Associate Director, Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit, Chief, Division of Neurocritical Care and Emergency Neurology
Recent Article
Plasma Hypoxanthine Is a Biomarker of Brain Edema After Ischemic Stroke -
Ziv Williams, MD
Neurosurgeon, Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Professor in Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Basic Rules Identified for Therapeutic Intracranial Stimulation of the Human Brain
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