Presurgical thalamocortical connectivity is associated with response to vagus nerve stimulation in children with intractable epilepsy

Presurgical thalamocortical connectivity is associated with response to vagus nerve stimulation in children with intractable epilepsy

Although chronic vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is an established treatment for medically-intractable childhood epilepsy, there is considerable heterogeneity in seizure response and little data are available to pre-operatively identify patients who may benefit from treatment. Since the therapeutic ef...

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Main Authors: George M. Ibrahim, Priya Sharma, Ann Hyslop, Magno R. Guillen, Benjamin R. Morgan, Simeon Wong, Taylor J. Abel, Lior Elkaim, Iahn Cajigas, Ashish H. Shah, Aria Fallah, Alexander G. Weil, Nolan Altman, Byron Bernal, Santiago Medina, Elysa Widjaja, Prasanna Jayakar, John Ragheb, Sanjiv Bhatia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-01-01
Series:NeuroImage: Clinical
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213158217302292

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