Challenges and Advances in Epilepsy Diagnosis
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Imaging and Theranostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2022) | Viewed by 2277
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders, affecting one percent of the general population. Making the correct diagnosis of epilepsy and identifying the etiology are essential for the proper management of the disease. The most recent classification of the epilepsies emphasizes the importance of the underlying etiologies, which can be divided into structural, metabolic, generic, infectious, immune, or unknown categories. Structural and functional neuroimaging techniques are greatly improving the correct diagnosis of the etiology and location of epileptogenic zones, leading to successful epilepsy surgery. Neuroimaging combined with electrophysiological studies is important for detecting the seizure onset zone, predicting the outcomes, and preventing the deficits from epilepsy surgery, and sometimes illuminating the mechanism of epileptogenesis. Recently, many susceptibility genes have been found in the epilepsy field, leading to the generation of a variety of theories regarding epileptogenesis. The key for precision medicine also lies in unveiling the specific mechanism of epilepsies based on genetic studies. Autoimmune epilepsy, recently included in the new classification of ILAE, has become an important category of new-onset refractory epilepsy. The following topis are just examples. We welcome all topics related to the diagnosis of epilepsy.
- MRI and related imaging techniques;
- Functional neuroimaging (e.g., PET and SPECT);
- Electrophysiological studies and magnetoencephalography;
- Functional mapping;
- Genetic studies;
- Diagnosis of autoimmune encephalitis and autoimmune epilepsy;
- Therapeutic drug monitoring;
- Description of semiology;
- Application of newly developed technologies (ubiquitous seizure detection devices, seizure detection programs, etc.);
- Case studies.
Prof. Dr. Sang Kun Lee
Guest Editor
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