Computer model identifies seizure-prone areas of the brain in epilepsy

Written by Emily Brown

Personalized surgical procedures for epilepsy could be one step closer following the development of a computer model that is able to pinpoint the area within an individual’s brain that is responsible for epileptic seizures. The study, believed to be the first to combine computational modeling of brain dynamics with patient-specific MRI data, appeared recently in PLOS Computational Biology. The research team based at Newcastle University (UK) combined brain scans from patients with temporal lobe epilepsy with computer modeling techniques in order to observe the brain as an example of a computer network. Anticonvulsant drugs are currently the mainstay of therapy...

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