NEUROIMAGING IN THE EVALUATION OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY .1. MAGNETIC-RESONANCE-IMAGING AND THE SUBSTRATES OF EPILEPSY

Recent advances in neuroimaging, particularly the magnetic resonance i maging (MRI) scan, have greatly enhanced our ability to visualize intr aparenchymal anatomy. With the linkage between intracranial pathology and epilepsy now clearly established, the MRI data provides detailed i nformation for the clinician treating patients with epilepsy. This art icle supplies the reader with an overview of the new techniques in MRI brain imaging that allow us to identify intracranial abnormalities, a nd a survey of some of the MRI-identified substrates of epilepsy. (C) 1997 by Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.