2011 Research Retreat
October 27-28, 2011
Abstracts for each poster presentation are available here
POSTER SESSION
- Thalamic GABA in human epilepsy
- PET imaging of microglial activation and glutamate receptor density in medically refractory epilepsy patients and healthy controls
- Multimodality functional mapping of language: Comparison of available methods
- 3-dimensional color movies of intracranial EEG for localizing seizures
- Neural mechanisms of visual and auditory awareness: Searching for common ground
- Expansion of intracranial electrode arrays at a single institution: Evidence for epileptogenic networks
- A possible lack of intracranial EEG support for a resting state network observed with fMRI
- Nasal midazolam as a seizure-aborting therapy and comparison with oral and rectal benzodiazepines in adults
- Brain stimulation for epilepsy: Update on responsive neurostimulation & deep brain stimulation
- Driving safety evaluation on the inpatient epilepsy monitoring unit
- Executive functioning in temporal lobe epilepsy patients with right and left mesial temporal sclerosis
- Neural correlates of cognitive abnormality in temporal lobe epilepsy: Evidence from fMRI intrinsic connectivity analysis
- Potential genetic etiologies for Rasmussen's encephalitis
- Exploring the seizure network in a novel animal model of temporal lobe epilepsy
- Magnetic resonance spectroscopy identifies neuronal progenitor cells in the live human brain
Abstracts for each slide presentation are available here
PRESENTATIONS
SESSION I: IMAGING
- Metabolic imaging at high field: Detection of neuronal injury and dysfunction
- Networks in epilepsy: A factor analysis in MTLE
- Methods for tract-based quantification of white matter from DTI
- EEG, fMRI, and behavior in childhood absence epilepsy
- Novel approaches to measuring local neuronal injury and dysfunction
- Task-induced and task-evoked electrophysiological responses from intracranial electrodes and their relationship to functional MRI
SESSION II: CLINICAL/ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY
- Psychiatric comorbidity and seizure outcome
- Patient awareness of seizures
- The antiepileptic drug database and CARET (computer assisted rational epilepsy therapy) program
- The metabolome of epileptic seizures in humans and animals
- Intracranial EEG in acute brain injury & multimodality monitoring of acute symptomatic seizures
- Genetics of epilepsy
- Spatial distribution of intracranially detected interictal spikes is related to the seizure onset area
SESSION III: ANIMAL MODELS
- Cortical and subcortical mechanisms of impaired consciousness in limbic seizures
- Glutamine synthetase, astrocytes, and epilepsy: Mechanisms and novel therapeutic approaches
- The Sloviter model
- Evaluation of post-ictal respiratory and cardiac activity in centrally serotonin neuron deficient mice
- Where fMRI and electrophysiology agree to disagree: Corticothalamic and striatal activity patterns in the WAG/Rij rat
- GABAergic interneuron replacement in a mouse model of temporal lobe epilepsy
SESSION IV: NEW DIRECTIONS aka "DATA FREE ZONE"
- Genetics of common epilepsy
- The future of viral vector therapy for epilepsy
- Solving SUDEP (sudden unexpected death in epilepsy)
- SIRPIDs (stimulus-induced rhythmic, periodic or ictal discharges): Nature & clinical significance
- Autism and epilepsy
- Ambulatory seizure counting device
- Optogenetic testing of the network inhibition hypothesis in a mouse model of limbic seizures