Spatiotemporal neuronal correlates of seizure generation in focal epilepsy

Purpose:  Focal seizures are thought to reflect simultaneous activation of a large population of neurons within a discrete region of pathologic brain. Resective surgery targeting this focus is an effective treatment in carefully selected patients, but not all. Although in vivo recordings of single‐neuron (i.e., “unit”) activity in patients with epilepsy have a long history, no studies have examined long‐term firing rates leading into seizures and the spatial relationship of unit activity with respect to the seizure‐onset zone.

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