Electroclinical Study of Adult Epilepsy and The Damage of Epileptic Network

Abstract

We have clinically analyzed 16 cases of adult epilepsy ranging from 19 to 70 years old. The seizure patterns found were tonic-clonic seizures and absence seizures. 9 cases were classified as generalized epilepsy and 7 cases as partial epilepsy. Neuroimages study revealed the following damage of brain parenchyma: hemisphere porencefalia and cists, temporal loss of neurons, gliosis, occipital cyst and occipital retraction of left ventricle, and calcifications in temporal and parietal region. The electroclinical findings were correlated with the epilepsy network examining the lesion of brain parenchyma induced by the seizure types. Frontotemporal, frontoparietal and occipital brain regions appeared as the most affected regions.