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Understanding juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: Contributions from neuroimaging

Joseph Anderson, +1 more
- 01 May 2011 - 
- Vol. 94, Iss: 3, pp 127-137
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Findings contribute to the ongoing debate surrounding the classification of epileptic syndromes, suggesting JME is a predominantly frontal thalamocortical network epilepsy, challenging the concept of a generalised epilepsy.
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This article is published in Epilepsy Research.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 54 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Myoclonic epilepsy & Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy.

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Motor system hyperconnectivity in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: a cognitive functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

TL;DR: Coactivation in the motor cortex and supplementary motor area with increasing cognitive load and increased functional coupling between the motor system and cognitive networks provide an explanation how cognitive effort can cause myoclonic jerks in juvenileMyoclonic epilepsy.
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The neuropsychological and academic substrate of new/recent-onset epilepsies.

TL;DR: Children with new/recent-onset epilepsies exhibit considerable cognitive abnormality at baseline, including patterns of shared abnormalities across syndromes as well as unique syndrome-specific cognitive effects that are observed and sometimes exacerbated in specific IGE and ILRE syndrome.
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Altered thalamocortical functional connectivity in idiopathic generalized epilepsy

TL;DR: This work aimed to investigate alterations of thalamocortical functional network in patients with IGE using thalamic seed‐based functional connectivity (FC) analysis, and their relationships with frontal cognitive functions and clinical characteristics.
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Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizures: Aberrant Interhemispheric Functional and Anatomical Connectivity

TL;DR: The bilateral anterior cingulate cortices may be important in the pathophysiology of generalized tonic-clonic seizures, and the connecting commissural fiber could be a target for future surgical treatment.
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Microstructural white matter abnormality and frontal cognitive dysfunctions in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy.

TL;DR: This study investigated changes of WM integrity in patients with JME, and their relationships with cognitive functions and epilepsy‐specific clinical factors.
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TL;DR: It is reported that an Ala322Asp mutation in GABRA1, encoding the α1 subunit of the γ-aminobutyric acid receptor subtype A (GABAA), is found in affected individuals of a large French Canadian family with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy.
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Generalized epileptic discharges show thalamocortical activation and suspension of the default state of the brain

TL;DR: Activations in thalamus and midfrontal regions confirm known involvement of these regions in the generation or spread of generalized epileptic discharges and suggest a brief lapse of responsiveness observed in patients during spike-and-wave discharges may result only from the epileptic discharge but also from its effect on normal brain function.
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