Structural Brain Network Abnormalities and the Probability of Seizure Recurrence After Epilepsy Surgery.

Journal: Neurology
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: We assessed preoperative structural brain networks and clinical characteristics of patients with drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) to identify correlates of postsurgical seizure recurrences.

Authors

  • Nishant Sinha
    From the Translational and Clinical Research Institute (N.S.), Faculty of Medical Sciences, and Computational Neuroscience, Neurology, and Psychiatry Lab (N.S., Y.W., N.M.d.S., P.N.T.), Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex BioSystems Group, School of Computing, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne; NIHR University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre (Y.W., A.M., A.W.M., J.d.T., S.B.V., G.P.W., J.S.D., P.N.T.), UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square; Centre for Medical Image Computing (S.B.V.), University College London; Epilepsy Society MRI Unit (S.B.V., G.P.W., J.S.D), Chalfont St Peter, UK; and Department of Medicine (G.P.W.,), Division of Neurology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. nishant.sinha89@gmail.com Peter.taylor@newcastle.ac.uk.
  • Yujiang Wang
    CNNP Lab, Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex BioSystems Group, School of Computing, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
  • NĂ¡dia Moreira da Silva
    From the Translational and Clinical Research Institute (N.S.), Faculty of Medical Sciences, and Computational Neuroscience, Neurology, and Psychiatry Lab (N.S., Y.W., N.M.d.S., P.N.T.), Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex BioSystems Group, School of Computing, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne; NIHR University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre (Y.W., A.M., A.W.M., J.d.T., S.B.V., G.P.W., J.S.D., P.N.T.), UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square; Centre for Medical Image Computing (S.B.V.), University College London; Epilepsy Society MRI Unit (S.B.V., G.P.W., J.S.D), Chalfont St Peter, UK; and Department of Medicine (G.P.W.,), Division of Neurology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
  • Anna Miserocchi
    From the Translational and Clinical Research Institute (N.S.), Faculty of Medical Sciences, and Computational Neuroscience, Neurology, and Psychiatry Lab (N.S., Y.W., N.M.d.S., P.N.T.), Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex BioSystems Group, School of Computing, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne; NIHR University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre (Y.W., A.M., A.W.M., J.d.T., S.B.V., G.P.W., J.S.D., P.N.T.), UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square; Centre for Medical Image Computing (S.B.V.), University College London; Epilepsy Society MRI Unit (S.B.V., G.P.W., J.S.D), Chalfont St Peter, UK; and Department of Medicine (G.P.W.,), Division of Neurology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
  • Andrew W McEvoy
    From the Translational and Clinical Research Institute (N.S.), Faculty of Medical Sciences, and Computational Neuroscience, Neurology, and Psychiatry Lab (N.S., Y.W., N.M.d.S., P.N.T.), Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex BioSystems Group, School of Computing, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne; NIHR University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre (Y.W., A.M., A.W.M., J.d.T., S.B.V., G.P.W., J.S.D., P.N.T.), UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square; Centre for Medical Image Computing (S.B.V.), University College London; Epilepsy Society MRI Unit (S.B.V., G.P.W., J.S.D), Chalfont St Peter, UK; and Department of Medicine (G.P.W.,), Division of Neurology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
  • Jane de Tisi
    From the Translational and Clinical Research Institute (N.S.), Faculty of Medical Sciences, and Computational Neuroscience, Neurology, and Psychiatry Lab (N.S., Y.W., N.M.d.S., P.N.T.), Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex BioSystems Group, School of Computing, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne; NIHR University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre (Y.W., A.M., A.W.M., J.d.T., S.B.V., G.P.W., J.S.D., P.N.T.), UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square; Centre for Medical Image Computing (S.B.V.), University College London; Epilepsy Society MRI Unit (S.B.V., G.P.W., J.S.D), Chalfont St Peter, UK; and Department of Medicine (G.P.W.,), Division of Neurology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
  • Sjoerd B Vos
    From the Translational and Clinical Research Institute (N.S.), Faculty of Medical Sciences, and Computational Neuroscience, Neurology, and Psychiatry Lab (N.S., Y.W., N.M.d.S., P.N.T.), Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex BioSystems Group, School of Computing, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne; NIHR University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre (Y.W., A.M., A.W.M., J.d.T., S.B.V., G.P.W., J.S.D., P.N.T.), UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square; Centre for Medical Image Computing (S.B.V.), University College London; Epilepsy Society MRI Unit (S.B.V., G.P.W., J.S.D), Chalfont St Peter, UK; and Department of Medicine (G.P.W.,), Division of Neurology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
  • Gavin P Winston
    Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Botterell Hall, 18 Stuart Street, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada; Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology, Etherington Hall, 94 Stuart Street, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada; Kingston Health Sciences Centre, 76 Stuart St, Kingston, ON K7L 2V7, Canada. Electronic address: gavin.winston@queensu.ca.
  • John S Duncan
    From the Translational and Clinical Research Institute (N.S.), Faculty of Medical Sciences, and Computational Neuroscience, Neurology, and Psychiatry Lab (N.S., Y.W., N.M.d.S., P.N.T.), Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex BioSystems Group, School of Computing, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne; NIHR University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre (Y.W., A.M., A.W.M., J.d.T., S.B.V., G.P.W., J.S.D., P.N.T.), UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square; Centre for Medical Image Computing (S.B.V.), University College London; Epilepsy Society MRI Unit (S.B.V., G.P.W., J.S.D), Chalfont St Peter, UK; and Department of Medicine (G.P.W.,), Division of Neurology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
  • Peter N Taylor
    From the Translational and Clinical Research Institute (N.S.), Faculty of Medical Sciences, and Computational Neuroscience, Neurology, and Psychiatry Lab (N.S., Y.W., N.M.d.S., P.N.T.), Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex BioSystems Group, School of Computing, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne; NIHR University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre (Y.W., A.M., A.W.M., J.d.T., S.B.V., G.P.W., J.S.D., P.N.T.), UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square; Centre for Medical Image Computing (S.B.V.), University College London; Epilepsy Society MRI Unit (S.B.V., G.P.W., J.S.D), Chalfont St Peter, UK; and Department of Medicine (G.P.W.,), Division of Neurology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.