ArticleBrain topography2022
Altered Resting State Networks Before and After Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Surgery.
Article in Brain topography, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
- Application of machine learning approaches to predict seizure-onset zones in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy: a systematic review.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Pooled it
- EEG microstates, spectral analysis, and risk prediction in epilepsy comorbid with mild cognitive impairment: alteration in intrinsic brain activity.Journal of translational medicine · 2025Article
- The impact of resective epilepsy surgery on the brain network: evidence from post-surgical imaging.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2025Review
- Progressive postoperative atrophy of ipsilateral thalamus, putamen, and globus pallidus in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy: A volumetric analysis.Epilepsia open · 2024Article
- Limited cerebellar gradient extension in temporal lobe epilepsy with dystonic posturing.Epilepsia open · 2024Article
- Association Between Postsurgical Functional Connectivity and Seizure Outcome in Patients With Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.Neurology · 2024Article
- Structural-functional coupling abnormalities in temporal lobe epilepsy.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
12 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectivesTo explore the resting state networks (RSNs) alterations in patients with unilateral mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (mTLE) before and after successful surgery.
methodsResting-state functional MRI and T1-weighted structural MRI were obtained in 37 mTLE patients who achieved seizure freedom after anterior temporal lobectomy. Patients were scanned before surgery and at two years after surgery. Twenty-eight age- and sex-matched healthy controls were scanned once. Functional connectivity (FC) changes within and between ten common RSNs before and after surgery, and FC changes between hippocampus and RSNs were explored.
resultsBefore surgery, decreased FC was found within visual network and basal ganglia network, while after surgery, FC within basal ganglia network further decreased but FC within sensorimotor network and dorsal attention network increased. Before surgery, between-network FC related to basal ganglia network, visual network and dorsal attention network decreased, while between-network FC related to default mode network increased. After surgery, between-network FC related to visual network and dorsal attention network significantly increased. In addition, before surgery, ipsilateral hippocampus showed decreased FC with visual network, basal ganglia network, sensorimotor network, default mode network and frontoparietal network, while contralateral rostral hippocampus showed increased FC with salience network. After surgery, no obvious FC changes were found between contralateral hippocampus and these RSNs.
conclusionMTLE patients showed significant RSNs alterations before and after surgery. Basal ganglia network showed progressive decline in functional connectivity. Successful surgery may lead to RSNs reorganization. These results provide preliminary evidence for postoperative functional remodeling at whole-brain-network level.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.