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
