Abstract
Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a noninvasive imaging method for localization of focal epileptiform activity in patients with epilepsy. This study investigates the cerebral functional abnormalities quantified by MEG coherence laterality in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (mTLE). Resting state MEG data was analyzed using MEG coherence source imaging (MEG-CSI) method to determine the coherence in 54 anatomical sites in 12 adult mTLE patients and 12 age- and gender-matched controls. MEG coherence laterality, after Bonferroni adjustment, showed significant differences for right versus left mTLE in insular cortex and both lateral orbitofrontal and superior temporal gyri (p<;0.025). None of these anatomical sites showed statistically significant differences in coherence laterality between right and left sides of controls. Coherence laterality was in agreement with the declared side of epileptogenicity in insular cortex (in 75% of patients) and both lateral orbitofrontal (83%) and superior temporal gyri (84%). Combining all significant laterality indices improved the lateralization accuracy to 92%. The proposed methodology for using MEG to investigate the abnormalities related to focal epileptogenicity and propagation can provide a further means of noninvasive lateralization.
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