ArticleBrain communications2026
Lateralized excitation-inhibition rebalance correlates with motor recovery following hemispheric surgery.
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Hemispheric epilepsy surgery effectively achieves seizure control, yet post-operative motor recovery remains challenging. Whether motor compensation is linked to the excitation-inhibition balance in the unaffected hemisphere (UH) remains unclear. Using scalp EEG, we quantified the aperiodic exponent of the power spectrum as a non-invasive biomarker of cortical excitation-inhibition ratio (where a flatter spectral slope reflects neural excitation). We retrospectively analysed 46 patients who underwent hemispheric surgery and 23 age-matched unilateral non-hemispheric controls. Motor function was measured preoperatively and 3 months post-operatively, with preoperative status classified as preserved or impaired. We assessed preoperative inter-hemispheric asymmetry, post-operative UH modulation and their linear interaction in predicting motor improvement. Jackknife mapping was used to identify the contribution of a specific scalp sensor. Our results show that the hemispheric cohort exhibited a distinct preoperative excitation-inhibition asymmetry (
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