Clinical research challenges posed by difficult-to-treat depression

AJ Rush, HA Sackeim, CR Conway… - Psychological …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Approximately one-third of individuals in a major depressive episode will not achieve
sustained remission despite multiple, well-delivered treatments. These patients experience …

[BOOK][B] Epilepsy: a public health imperative

World Health Organization - 2019 - apps.who.int
Epilepsy is a brain disease characterized by abnormal electrical activity causing seizures or
unusual behaviour, sensations and sometimes loss of awareness. It carries neurological …

[HTML][HTML] Neurological disorders

KT Thakur, E Albanese, P Giannakopoulos… - Disease control …, 2016 - books.google.com
Neurological disorders pose a large burden on worldwide health. The most recent estimates
show that the neurological disorders included in the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study …

[HTML][HTML] A deep learning framework for epileptic seizure detection based on neonatal EEG signals

A Gramacki, J Gramacki - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Electroencephalogram (EEG) is one of the main diagnostic tests for epilepsy. The detection
of epileptic activity is usually performed by a human expert and is based on finding specific …

Neural fragility as an EEG marker of the seizure onset zone

A Li, C Huynh, Z Fitzgerald, I Cajigas, D Brusko… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Over 15 million patients with epilepsy worldwide do not respond to drugs. Successful
surgical treatment requires complete removal or disconnection of the seizure onset zone …

Connectomic profiling identifies responders to vagus nerve stimulation

K Mithani, M Mikhail, BR Morgan, S Wong… - Annals of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is a common treatment for medically intractable
epilepsy, but response rates are highly variable, with no preoperative means of identifying …

High-density ECoG improves the detection of high frequency oscillations that predict seizure outcome

E Boran, G Ramantani, N Krayenbühl… - Clinical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objectives Residual fast ripples (FR) in the intraoperative ECoG are highly specific
predictors of postsurgical seizure recurrence. However, a FR is generated by a small patch …

[PDF][PDF] Human cortical interneurons optimized for grafting specifically integrate, abort seizures, and display prolonged efficacy without over-inhibition

Q Zhu, A Mishra, JS Park, D Liu, DT Le, SZ Gonzalez… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
Previously, we demonstrated the efficacy of human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC)-derived
GABAergic cortical interneuron (cIN) grafts in ameliorating seizures. However, a safe and …

[PDF][PDF] Resolving the micro-macro disconnect to address core features of seizure networks

JS Farrell, QA Nguyen, I Soltesz - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Current drug treatments for epilepsy attempt to broadly restrict excitability to mask a
symptom, seizures, with little regard for the heterogeneous mechanisms that underlie …

[HTML][HTML] A spiking neural network (SNN) for detecting high frequency oscillations (HFOs) in the intraoperative ECoG

K Burelo, M Sharifshazileh, N Krayenbühl… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
To achieve seizure freedom, epilepsy surgery requires the complete resection of the
epileptogenic brain tissue. In intraoperative electrocorticography (ECoG) recordings, high …