Epilepsy Prevention
Study results from University Hospital, Department of Neurology update understanding of epilepsy prevention
Published in Health Risk Factor Week, March 9th, 2010
Fresh data on epilepsy are presented in the report 'Individual white matter fractional anisotropy analysis on patients with MRI negative partial epilepsy.' According to recent research from Muenster, Germany, "Conventional structural MRI fails to identify a cerebral lesion in 25% of patients with cryptogenic partial epilepsy (CPE). Diffusion tensor imaging is an MRI technique sensitive to microstructural abnormalities of cerebral white matter (WM) by quantification of fractional anisotropy (FA)."
"The objectives of the present study were to identify focal FA abnormalities in patients with CPE who were deemed MRI negative during routine presurgical evaluation. Diffusion...
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