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Englot DJ, Morgan VL, Chang C. Impaired vigilance networks in temporal lobe epilepsy: Mechanisms and clinical implications. Epilepsia 2020; 61:189-202. [PMID: 31901182 DOI: 10.1111/epi.16423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2019] [Revised: 12/17/2019] [Accepted: 12/17/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (mTLE) is a neurological disorder in which patients suffer from frequent consciousness-impairing seizures, broad neurocognitive deficits, and diminished quality of life. Although seizures in mTLE originate focally in the hippocampus or amygdala, mTLE patients demonstrate cognitive deficits that extend beyond temporal lobe function-such as decline in executive function, cognitive processing speed, and attention-as well as diffuse decreases in neocortical metabolism and functional connectivity. Given prior observations that mTLE patients exhibit impairments in vigilance, and that seizures may disrupt the activity and long-range connectivity of subcortical brain structures involved in vigilance regulation, we propose that subcortical activating networks underlying vigilance play a critical role in mediating the widespread neural and cognitive effects of focal mTLE. Here, we review evidence for impaired vigilance in mTLE, examine clinical implications and potential network underpinnings, and suggest neuroimaging strategies for determining the relationship between vigilance, brain connectivity, and neurocognition in patients and healthy controls.
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Affiliation(s)
- Dario J Englot
- Department of Neurological Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.,Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.,Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.,Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.,Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.,Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.,Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
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Altered functional connectivity in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsy Res 2017; 137:45-52. [DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2017.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2017] [Revised: 08/23/2017] [Accepted: 09/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Tailby C, Weintrob DL, Saling MM, Fitzgerald C, Jackson GD. Reading difficulty is associated with failure to lateralize temporooccipital function. Epilepsia 2014; 55:746-753. [PMID: 24725071 DOI: 10.1111/epi.12607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/21/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Studies of focal epilepsy have revealed abnormalities of language organization; however, little attention has been paid to disorders of reading in this group. We hypothesized that language functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) would reveal differences in language organization between focal epilepsy patients with and without reading difficulties. METHODS We conducted language fMRI studies of 10 focal epilepsy patients with reading difficulties, 34 focal epilepsy patients without reading difficulties, and 42 healthy controls. RESULTS We defined regions of interests on the basis of activation patterns on an orthographic lexical retrieval task. Comparison of activations within these ROIs on a second Noun-Verb task revealed epilepsy-related effects (relative to healthy controls: reduced activation in left inferior frontal cortex), as well as greater activation in the right temporooccipital cortex specific to the reading difficulty group. SIGNIFICANCE These findings identify a focal epilepsy effect in the left frontal region (present in patients with and without reading difficulties), and a functional abnormality specific to the reading difficulty group localized to right temporooccipital cortex-a region implicated in lexicosemantic processing. Our observations suggest a failure of left hemisphere specialization among focal epilepsy patients with reading difficulties.
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- Chris Tailby
- The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Cataldi M, Avoli M, de Villers-Sidani E. Resting state networks in temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsia 2013; 54:2048-59. [PMID: 24117098 DOI: 10.1111/epi.12400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/30/2013] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is typically described as a neurologic disorder affecting a cerebral network comprising the hippocampus proper and several anatomically related extrahippocampal regions. A new level of complexity was recently added to the study of this disorder by the evidence that TLE also appears to chronically alter the activity of several brain-wide neural networks involved in the control of higher order brain functions and not traditionally linked to epilepsy. Recently developed brain imaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) analysis of resting state connectivity, have greatly contributed to these observations by allowing the precise characterization of several brain networks with distinct functional signatures in the resting brain, and therefore also known as "resting state networks." These significant advances in imaging represent an opportunity to investigate the still elusive origins of the disabling cognitive and psychiatric manifestations of TLE, and could have important implications for its pathophysiology and, perhaps, its therapy. Herein we review recent studies in this field by focusing on resting state networks that have been implicated in the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders and cognitive impairment in patients with epilepsy: the default mode network, the attention network, and the reward/emotion network.
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- Mauro Cataldi
- Division of Pharmacology, Department of Neuroscience, Reproductive and Odontostomatologic Sciences, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy
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Rosazza C, Ghielmetti F, Minati L, Vitali P, Giovagnoli A, Deleo F, Didato G, Parente A, Marras C, Bruzzone M, D'Incerti L, Spreafico R, Villani F. Preoperative language lateralization in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) predicts peri-ictal, pre- and post-operative language performance: An fMRI study. Neuroimage Clin 2013; 3:73-83. [PMID: 24179851 PMCID: PMC3807502 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2013.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2013] [Revised: 05/31/2013] [Accepted: 07/01/2013] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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In patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), assessment of language lateralization is important as anterior temporal lobectomy may lead to language impairments. Despite the widespread use of fMRI, evidence of its usefulness in predicting postsurgical language performance is scant. We investigated whether preoperative functional lateralization is related to the preoperative language performance, peri-ictal aphasia, and can predict language outcome one year post-surgery. We studied a total of 72 TLE patients (42 left, 30 right), by using three fMRI tasks: Naming, Verb Generation and Fluency. Functional lateralization indices were analyzed with neuropsychological scores and presence of peri-ictal aphasia. The key findings are:1)Both left and right TLE patients show decreased left lateralization compared to controls.2)Lateralization correlates with language performance before surgery. In left TLE, decreased left lateralization correlates with better fluency performance. In right TLE, increased left lateralization during the Naming task correlates with better naming.3)Left lateralization correlates with peri-ictal aphasia in left TLE patients.4)Lateralization correlates with language performance after surgery. In a subgroup of left TLE who underwent surgery (17 left), decreased left lateralization is predictive of better naming performance at 6 and 12 months after surgery. The present study highlights the clinical relevance of fMRI language lateralization in TLE, especially to predict language outcome one year post-surgery. We also underline the importance of using fMRI tasks eliciting frontal and anterior temporal activations, when studying left and right TLE patients.
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- C. Rosazza
- Neuroradiology Dept., Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico “Carlo Besta”, Milano, Italy
- Scientific Dept., Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico “Carlo Besta”, Milano, Italy
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- Neuroradiology Dept., Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico “Carlo Besta”, Milano, Italy
- Health Dept., Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico “Carlo Besta”, Milano, Italy
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- Scientific Dept., Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico “Carlo Besta”, Milano, Italy
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- Brain MRI 3T Mondino Research Center, Istituto Neurologico “C. Mondino”, Pavia, Italy
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- Neuropsychology Laboratory, Dept. of Clinical Neurosciences, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico “Carlo Besta”, Milano, Italy
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- Division of Clinical Epileptology and Experimental Neurophysiology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico “Carlo Besta”, Milano, Italy
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- Division of Clinical Epileptology and Experimental Neurophysiology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico “Carlo Besta”, Milano, Italy
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- Neuropsychology Laboratory, Dept. of Clinical Neurosciences, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico “Carlo Besta”, Milano, Italy
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- Neurosurgery Dept., Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico “Carlo Besta”, Milano, Italy
- Dept. of Neuroscience Bambino Gesù Children Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- Neuroradiology Dept., Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico “Carlo Besta”, Milano, Italy
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- Neuroradiology Dept., Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico “Carlo Besta”, Milano, Italy
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- Division of Clinical Epileptology and Experimental Neurophysiology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico “Carlo Besta”, Milano, Italy
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- Division of Clinical Epileptology and Experimental Neurophysiology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico “Carlo Besta”, Milano, Italy
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Loutfi KS, Carvalho AM. Possíveis interfaces entre TDAH e epilepsia. JORNAL BRASILEIRO DE PSIQUIATRIA 2010. [DOI: 10.1590/s0047-20852010000200011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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OBJETIVO: Identificar na literatura elementos para explicar uma possível associação entre o transtorno de déficit de atenção e hiperatividade (TDAH) e a epilepsia e orientar quanto ao manejo clínico dos pacientes que compartilham esses transtornos. MÉTODOS: Realizou-se revisão da literatura dos últimos 10 anos nas bases de dados MedLine e Lilacs com a combinação dos descritores "attention deficit hyperactivity disorder", "ADHD" e "epilepsy". RESULTADOS: Sintomas de TDAH são frequentes em síndromes epilépticas idiopáticas. Vários fatores podem contribuir para a coexistência desses transtornos: 1) possibilidade de uma mesma propensão genética; 2) participação dos neurotransmissores noradrenalina e dopamina no TDAH e na modulação da excitabilidade neuronal; 3) anormalidades estruturais do cérebro evidenciadas em epilépticos portadores de TDAH; 4) influência dos efeitos crônicos das crises e das descargas epileptiformes interictais sob a atenção; 5) efeitos adversos das drogas antiepilépticas sob a cognição. CONCLUSÕES: As evidências atuais apontam que crises epilépticas e TDAH podem apresentar bases neurobiológicas comuns. Estudos que avaliam disfunções nas vias de sinalização das catecolaminas cerebrais e o papel das descargas epileptiformes interictais na geração dos sintomas são fundamentais na investigação desses mecanismos. Drogas psicoestimulantes são seguras e eficazes para o tratamento do TDAH na maioria dos portadores de epilepsia.
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Bocquillon P, Dujardin K, Betrouni N, Phalempin V, Houdayer E, Bourriez JL, Derambure P, Szurhaj W. Attention impairment in temporal lobe epilepsy: a neurophysiological approach via analysis of the P300 wave. Hum Brain Mapp 2009; 30:2267-77. [PMID: 19034898 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Attention is often impaired in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). The P300 wave (an endogenous, event-related potential) is a correlate of attention which is usually recorded during an "oddball paradigm," where the subject is instructed to detect an infrequent target stimulus presented amongst frequent, standard stimuli. Modifications of the P300 wave's latency and amplitude in TLE have been suggested, but it is still not known whether the source regions also differ. Our hypothesis was that temporal lobe dysfunction would modify the P3 source regions in TLE patients. METHODS A comparative, high density, 128-channel electroencephalographic analysis of the characteristics of P300 (P3b latency and amplitude) was performed in 10 TLE patients and 10 healthy controls during auditory and visual oddball paradigms. The P3b sources were localized on individual 3D MR images using the LORETA method and intergroup statistical comparisons were performed using SPM2(R) software. RESULTS Our main results (in both individual analyses and intergroup comparisons) revealed a reduction in temporal (and more particularly mesiotemporal) sources and, to a lesser extent, frontal sources in TLE patients, compared with controls. DISCUSSION This reduction may reflect direct, local cortical dysfunction caused by the epileptic focus or more complex interference between epileptic networks and normal attentional pathways.
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- Perrine Bocquillon
- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Lille University Medical Center, Lille, France
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Zhang Z, Lu G, Zhong Y, Tan Q, Yang Z, Liao W, Chen Z, Shi J, Liu Y. Impaired attention network in temporal lobe epilepsy: A resting FMRI study. Neurosci Lett 2009; 458:97-101. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.04.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2009] [Revised: 04/11/2009] [Accepted: 04/20/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Silva ANS, Andrade VM, Oliveira HA. [Neuropsychological assessment in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy]. ARQUIVOS DE NEURO-PSIQUIATRIA 2008; 65:492-7. [PMID: 17665022 DOI: 10.1590/s0004-282x2007000300025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2006] [Accepted: 03/08/2007] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We investigated the patient cognition with temporal lobe epilepsy that presented or no mesial injury in magnetic resonance exam. We used classics and ecological neuropsychological tests to indicate possible functional alterations, and to compare results between ecological and traditional instruments. Thirty-four people match in age and study year were separate in three groups: 12 patients with mesial injury; 12 without injury and 10 health people. We used for functional evaluation: Wechsler adult intelligence and memory scales subtests, verbal fluency and Rivermead behavior memory test. The patients with injuries presented low cognitive performance when compared with control groups in various tasks: attentional span, memory, speech, daily problems resolution, while the patients without injury showed more compensated with mild attentional alterations. Both traditional memory tests and ecological memory tests were efficient to describe the cognitive profile of patients with epilepsy.
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- Alisson N S Silva
- Departamento de Psicologia, Hospital Universitário da Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Aracaju SE, Brasil
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Andersson-Roswall L, Engman E, Malmgren K, Samuelsson H. Verbal cognition and attention deficits do not explain the verbal memory decline associated with pharmacoresistant partial epilepsy. Epilepsy Behav 2007; 11:413-20. [PMID: 17905667 DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2007.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2007] [Revised: 07/07/2007] [Accepted: 07/14/2007] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The aim of this study was to explore whether change in verbal memory with time in patients with epilepsy is influenced by performance on tasks assessing verbal cognition or attention/processing speed. Thirty-six patients and twenty-five healthy controls were tested twice with median retest intervals of 4.8 and 3.1 years, respectively. Aspects of verbal memory, verbal cognition, and attention/processing speed were assessed. Decline in one verbal memory variable (Cronholm-Molander Memory Test Paired Associates -- Delayed Recall) was the strongest correlate of epilepsy. The second strongest correlate was a decrease in one attention/processing speed variable (Digit Symbol). The relationship between decline in verbal memory and epilepsy was not influenced by the decline in attention/processing speed, and the results did not support the notion that limited mental reserves as reflected in impaired verbal cognition or attention/processing speed can explain the relationship between verbal memory and epilepsy.
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- Lena Andersson-Roswall
- Epilepsy Research Group, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Göteborg, Göteborg, Sweden.
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Stella F, Maciel JA. Intelligence functions disorders in patients with complex partial epilepsy. ARQUIVOS DE NEURO-PSIQUIATRIA 2004; 62:983-7. [PMID: 15608956 DOI: 10.1590/s0004-282x2004000600010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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OBJECTIVES: To compare the performance of patients with complex partial epilepsy with the normal controls in the subtests of an instrument used to assess intelligence function. METHOD: Fifty epileptic patients, whose ages ranged from 19 to 49 years and 20 normal controls without any neuropsychiatric disorders. The Wechsler-Bellevue adult intelligence test was applied in groups, epileptic patients and control subjects. This test is composed of several subtests that assess specific cognitive functions. A statistical analysis was performed using non-parametric tests. RESULTS: All the Wechsler-Bellevue subtests revealed that the intelligence functions of the patients were significantly inferior to that of the controls (p<0.05). This performance was supported by the patient's complaints in relation to their cognitive performance. CONCLUSION: Patients with complex partial epilepsy presented poorer results in the intelligence test when compared with individuals without neuropsychiatric disorders.
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- Florindo Stella
- Institute of Biosciences, Paulista State University, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil.
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Le bilan d’une épilepsie partielle pharmaco-résistante : explorations neuropsychologiques. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/s0035-3787(04)71193-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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