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ArticleScientific reports2020

Dynamic network properties of the interictal brain determine whether seizures appear focal or generalised.

Wessel Woldman, Helmut Schmidt, Eugenio Abela, Fahmida A Chowdhury, Adam D Pawley, Sharon Jewell, Mark P Richardson, John R Terry

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Wessel WoldmanCentre for Systems Modelling and Quantitative Biomedicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom. w.woldman@bham.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2957-6276
Helmut SchmidtMax Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.
Eugenio AbelaInstitute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Fahmida A ChowdhuryNIHR University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom.
Adam D PawleyInstitute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Sharon JewellInstitute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Mark P Richardson *Centre for Systems Modelling and Quantitative Biomedicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
John R Terry *Centre for Systems Modelling and Quantitative Biomedicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

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Medical Research Council MR/N026063/1RCUK | Medical Research Council (MRC) MR/K013998/1RCUK | Medical Research Council (MRC) MR/N01524X/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Current explanatory concepts suggest seizures emerge from ongoing dynamics of brain networks. It is unclear how brain network properties determine focal or generalised seizure onset, or how network properties can be described in a clinically-useful manner. Understanding network properties would cast light on seizure-generating mechanisms and allow to quantify to which extent a seizure is focal or generalised. Functional brain networks were estimated in segments of scalp-EEG without interictal discharges (68 people with epilepsy, 38 controls). Simplified brain dynamics were simulated using a computer model. We introduce: Critical Coupling (C

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PMID32341399
PMCPMC7184577

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