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Imaging Epilepsy and Epileptic Seizures Using fMRI

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has had an extraordinary impact on the diagnosis and management of epilepsy. The routine use of high-field MRI in clinical epilepsy has also encouraged interest in the potential for functional MRI (fMRI) to image the abnormal brain function that underlies epilepsy. Here, we give a brief overview of epilepsy and the current state of fMRI for the difficult problem of imaging epilepsy and epileptic seizures.

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Glynn, S.M., Detre, J.A. (2013). Imaging Epilepsy and Epileptic Seizures Using fMRI. In: Ulmer, S., Jansen, O. (eds) fMRI. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34342-1_14

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