Title |
Pattern changes of EEG oscillations and BOLD signals associated with temporal lobe epilepsy as revealed by a working memory task
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Published in |
BMC Neuroscience, April 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2202-15-52 |
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Authors |
Helka FB Ozelo, Andréa Alessio, Maurício S Sercheli, Elizabeth Bilevicius, Tatiane Pedro, Fabrício RS Pereira, Jane M Rondina, Benito P Damasceno, Fernando Cendes, Roberto JM Covolan |
Abstract |
It is known that the abnormal neural activity in epilepsy may be associated to the reorganization of neural circuits and brain plasticity in various ways. On that basis, we hypothesized that changes in neuronal circuitry due to epilepsy could lead to measurable variations in patterns of both EEG and BOLD signals in patients performing some cognitive task as compared to what would be obtained in normal condition. Thus, the aim of this study was to compare the cerebral areas involved in EEG oscillations versus fMRI signal patterns during a working memory (WM) task in normal controls and patients with refractory mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) associated with hippocampal sclerosis (HS). The study included six patients with left MTLE-HS (left-HS group) and seven normal controls (control group) matched to the patients by age and educational level, both groups undergoing a blocked design paradigm based on Sternberg test during separated EEG and fMRI sessions. This test consisted of encoding and maintenance of a variable number of consonant letters on WM. |
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