This chapter includes an accompanying lecture presentation that has been prepared by the authors: Video 94B.1 . Key Concepts The selective amygdalohippocampectomy (SAH) appears to be as effective in terms of seizure outcomes as a traditional anterior temporal lobectomy (ATL)…
This chapter includes an accompanying lecture presentation that has been prepared by the authors: Video 94A.1 . Key Concepts Anteromedial resection is a safe and effective approach for medial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE). Preoperative work-up guides the resection. Anatomic landmarks…
This chapter includes an accompanying lecture presentation that has been prepared by the authors: Video 93.1 . Key Concepts A number of research approaches appropriate for a neuroscientific investigation of cognition are afforded in human epilepsy surgical patients. The most…
This chapter includes an accompanying lecture presentation that has been prepared by the authors, along with Dr. Nitin Tandon: Video 92.1 . Key Concepts Preoperative counseling is important for successful intraoperative mapping. Thorough evaluation of patients with lesions in eloquent…
This chapter includes an accompanying lecture presentation that has been prepared by the authors: Video 91.1 . Key Concepts Topectomy/lesionectomy is an excellent procedure for the treatment of drug-resistant focal epilepsy when the epileptogenic focus can be isolated Intraoperative electrocorticography…
This chapter includes an accompanying slide presentation that has been prepared by the authors: Video 90.1 . Key Concepts Stereo-electroencephalography (SEEG) is a method of seizure localization for medically refractory epilepsy. The SEEG method is based on the principle of…
This chapter includes an accompanying lecture presentation that has been prepared by the authors: Video 89.1 . Key Concepts Subdural grid and strip electrodes have been used in the presurgical evaluation for epilepsy surgery for more than half a century.…
This chapter includes an accompanying lecture presentation that has been prepared by the authors: Video 88.1 . Key Concepts Functional MRI (fMRI) can lateralize language and broadly localize eloquent functions including language, memory, motor, somatosensory, and visual functions. fMRI should…
This chapter includes an accompanying lecture presentation that has been prepared by the author: Video 87.1 . Key Concepts Wada testing involves brief anesthetization (i.e., several minutes) of one cerebral hemisphere to enable assessment of cognitive function within the contralateral,…
Acknowledgments We are thankful to Mr. Michael R. Czachowski for his help with coregistration of various imaging modalities. This chapter includes an accompanying lecture presentation that has been prepared by the authors: Video 86.1 . Key Concepts Magnetoencephalography/magnetic source imaging…