John Bernabei, current M.D., Ph.D. student, and Lohith Kini, M.D., Ph.D., were the primary co-authors on a new publication in Brain on Thursday. In their paper, the authors introduced and shared a set of network-based techniques aimed at predicting the most effective surgical resection zone in epilepsy patients. Virtual resection, as the technique is called, […]

Jennifer Stiso, a graduate student in the lab of CNT member Danielle Bassett, Ph.D., recently published findings in Cell Reports detailing how models of neural networks can be used to personalize brain stimulation therapies with the goal of improving memory. The modeling of neural networks using electrode data gathered during the treatment of epilepsy is […]

Approximately 30% of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) do not respond to medication and may turn to surgical removal of the seizure-onset zone. However, 30-40% of patients who undergo surgery still may not achieve seizure freedom, in part due to imprecise localization of the seizure onset zone (SOZ). Andy Revell, an M.D., Ph.D. candidate […]

For patients whose epilepsy is not controlled by medication, surgical intervention may offer the possibility of achieving seizure freedom— but after epileptic tissue is removed, how does the brain respond? This is the question Ph.D. student Campbell Arnold has been researching at the CNT. At the ICTALS 2019 meeting, he presented his work on developing […]