Simultaneous EEG‐fMRI in drug‐naive children with newly diagnosed absence epilepsy

Purpose: In patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE), blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) EEG during functional MRI (EEG‐fMRI) has been successfully used to link changes in regional neuronal activity to the occurrence of generalized spike‐and‐wave (GSW) discharges. Most EEG‐fMRI studies have been performed on adult patients with long‐standing epilepsy who were on antiepileptic medication. Here, we applied EEG‐fMRI to investigate BOLD signal changes during absence seizures in children with newly diagnosed childhood absence epilepsy (CAE).

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