New technique fine-tunes treatment for severe epilepsy cases

The technology called magnetoencephalography or MEG measures small amounts of magnetic-electrical activity on the surface of epileptic brain areas, and the researchers have developed a novel way to employ it.

Recording of seizures during routine MEG in some surgical candidates can help precisely identify affected areas of the brain and, in a few cases, even negate the need to conduct invasive intracranial EEG evaluations prior to surgery, the authors say. Lead author of the study published 11 June in the journal JAMA Neurology is Dr Rafeed Alkawadri, assistant professor of neurology at Yale and director of Yale Human Brain Mapping Program. Dr Andreas Alexopoulos of the Cleveland Clinic is senior author of the paper.

This article was originally published by Yale University.