INCREASED FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY OF THE TEMPORAL LOBE REGIONS, AS THE MAGNETIC RESONANCE MARKER FOR TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY
O. Omelchenko1, 2, M. Makarchuk1
- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
- Medical Clinic “BORIS”, Kyiv, Ukraine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/fz64.04.020
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Abstract
Group of eight patients with the temporal lobe epilepsy
was examined. During the performance of the motor task
the activation of the primary and associative sensorimotor
regions of the cerebral cortex, which constitute the sensory
motor neural network, was detected. Averaged general
volume of activation voxels was 46.22 cm3, with the used
threshold value was Z ≥ 2.3. Averaged changes of magnetic
resonance (MR) signal in activation clusters were 1.15% (SD
= 0.17%). The analysis of the data obtained in the resting
state showed the functional connectivity of the regions of
the anterior pole of the inferior temporal gyrus, the posterior
pole of the middle temporal gyrus, parahippocampal gyri
of both hemispheres, as well as the hippocampus of the left
hemisphere of the brain, which topographically corresponds
to the localization of epileptiform activity according to the
electroencephalography. The frequency of oscillation of MRsignal
in described neuronal network was 0.1·10-3Hz. Thus, we
have discovered the activation of the intact sensorimotor neural
network, as well as the functional connectivity of a potentially
epileptogenic macroscopic neural network. Consequently,
functional magnetic resonance imaging potentially can
complement diagnostic methods for detecting epileptogenic
neural networks in temporal epilepsy.
Keywords:
epilepsy, functional (fMRI), motor cortex, brain.
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