Synopsis

Keywords: Neuro: Brain

Epilepsy is a common and potentially disabling neurologic disorder due to neuronal dysfunction. Fortunately, surgical treatment can provide seizure freedom when anti-seizure medications fail, but identifying appropriate patients and optimizing surgical treatments requires localizing epileptic abnormality that often is varying and may occur without evident structural abnormality. However, MRI has considerable diagnostic and prognostic value for epilepsy surgery, as it may provide a potential structural correlate to a plausible epileptic localization. Improving the evaluation of epilepsy will require better integration of high resolution structural imaging with high specificity functional imaging. With this, many additional patients will receive more effective treatments.