Interhemispheric Functional Connectivity in Childhood Absence Epilepsy

Abstract

Using a blood oxygen level-dependent resting functional connectivity approach to analyze EEG-fMRI data, the properties of bihemispheric brain networks in 16 patients with childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) were investigated during the interictal period, in a study at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.

Keywords

• childhood absence epilepsy
• lateral orbitofrontal cortex
• focal bilateral network abnormalities