Publication: Delayed cortical maturation at the centrotemporal brain regions in patients with benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BCECTS)
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2019-08-01
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18726844
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Epilepsy Research. Vol.154, (2019), 124-131
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Vorasith Siripornpanich, Anannit Visudtibhan, Naiphinich Kotchabhakdi, Nuanchan Chutabhakdikul Delayed cortical maturation at the centrotemporal brain regions in patients with benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BCECTS). Epilepsy Research. Vol.154, (2019), 124-131. doi:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2019.05.003 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/51498
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Delayed cortical maturation at the centrotemporal brain regions in patients with benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BCECTS)
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© 2019 Elsevier B.V. Benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BCECTS) is an epilepsy syndrome commonly found in child and adolescent. Although the prognosis is mostly favorable as long as the seizure is well controlled. However, they are often suffering from the cognitive and behavioral problems which might be the consequences of the initial insults. It is still not clear whether the initial epileptiform discharges has long term impact on the resting-state brain activities at later ages. This study investigated the resting-state brain activities in BCECTS patients with clinical seizure remission stage (n = 16; 11 males) and compared with the non-epileptic, age-matched control subjects. Quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG) revealed a significantly higher absolute power of the theta and alpha waves in BCECTS patients with clinical seizure remission as compared with the non-epileptic control subjects. Interestingly, the differences were observed mainly over the centrotemporal electrodes which are the common sites of the initial epileptiform discharges. The differences were more significant in patients with bilateral epileptiform discharges than those with the unilateral epileptic activities. Typically, the brain wave power continuously decreases with increasing ages. Therefore, higher absolute powers of the brain waves indicate more delayed in cortical maturation compared with the non-epileptic control group. These findings indicated that BCECTS patients have delay cortical maturation at the centrotemporal brain regions even at the clinical seizure remission phase.