Imaging Biomarkers in Epilepsy

Preface; Dedication; Part I. Imaging the Development and Early Phase of the Disease: 1. Imaging biomarkers for febrile status epilepticus and other forms of convulsive status epilepticus Rodney Scott; 2. Experimental MRI approaches to study post-traumatic epilepsy Olli Gröhn and Alejandra Sierra; 3. Imaging biomarkers of acquired epilepsies Marian Galovic and Matthias Koepp; 4. Imaging and cognition in children with new onset epilepsies Kevin Dabbs, Camille Garcia-Ramos, Darren Jackson, Jack Lin, Sam Bobholz, Dace Almane, Jana Jones, Mike Seidenberg and Bruce Hermann; 5. Imaging genetics for benign mesial temporal lobe epilepsy Antonio Gambardella and Angelo Labate; Part II. Modeling Epileptogenic Lesions and Mapping Networks: 6. Computational neuroimaging of epilepsy Seok-Jun Hong, Min Liu, Ravnoor Gill, Edward Hogan, Neda Bernasconi, Andrea Bernasconi; 7. Imaging white matter pathology in epilepsy Min Liu, Luis Concha, Boris C. Bernhardt, Neda Bernasconi and Andrea Bernasconi; 8. Epilepsy network remodelling in epileptic disorders through neuroimaging Lorenzo Caciagli, Boris C. Bernhardt, Andrea Bernasconi and Neda Bernasconi; 9. Mapping metabolism and inflammation in epilepsy Csaba Juhász and Sandeep Mittal; 10. Inter-ictal and Ictal brain network changes in focal epilepsy Mangor Pedersen, Amir Omidvarnia and Graeme D. Jackson; 11. Ictal events imaged through SPECT Elson L. So, Vlastimil Sulc, Gregory Worrell and Benjamin H. Brinkmann; 12. Imaging thalamo-cortical circuitry in generalised epilepsies Fenglai Xiao and Lorenzo Caciagli; Part III. Predicting the Response to Therapeutic Interventions: 13. Prevention of epileptogenesis in animal models Asht Mangal Mishra and Hal Blumenfeld; 14. Imaging of mechanisms of drug resistance in experimental models of epilepsy Jens P. Bankstahl and M. Bankstahl; 15. Biomarkers of drug-response and pharmaco-resistance Britta Wandschneider, Maria Feldmann and Matthias Koepp; 16. Predicting the outcome of surgical interventions for epilepsy using imaging biomarkers Clarissa Lin Yasuda, Ana Carolina Coan, Marina K. Alvim and Fernando Cendes; Part IV. Mapping Consequences of the Disease: 17. Imaging neural excitability and networks in genetic absence epilepsy models Grygoriy Tsenov, Giuseppe Bertini, Michele Pellitteri, Elena Nicolato, Pasquina Marzola, Paolo Francesco Fabene and Gilles van Luijtelaar; 18. Network excitability and cognition in the developing brain William David Gaillard and Madison M. Berl; 19. Imaging co-morbidities in epilepsy: depression William H. Theodore; 20. Tracking epilepsy disease progression with neuroimaging Boris C. Bernhardt, Ana Carolina Coan, Lorenzo Caciagli, Andrea Bernasconi and Neda Bernasconi; 21. Imaging biomarkers to study cognition in epilepsy Silvia B. Bonelli and John S. Duncan; Index.