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Epileptic Activity Intrinsically Generated in the Human Cerebellum
Author(s) -
Okada Yoshio,
Khan Sheraz,
Curran Ashley,
Ahtam Banu,
Hämäläinen Matti S.,
Traub Roger D.,
Pearl Phillip L.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
annals of neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.764
H-Index - 296
eISSN - 1531-8249
pISSN - 0364-5134
DOI - 10.1002/ana.25779
Subject(s) - cerebellum , ictal , neuroscience , epilepsy , human brain , medicine , psychology , pathology
Neoplastic or dysplastic neuronal tissue in the brain stem and cerebellum can become epileptogenic in pediatric patients. However, it is unknown whether such tissue may transform intrinsic properties of the human cerebellum, making it capable of generating epileptic population activity. We noninvasively detected epileptiform signals unaveraged in a pediatric patient with epilepsy due to a tumor in the middle cerebellar peduncle. Analysis of generators of the signals revealed that the cerebellum ipsilateral and contralateral to the tumor was the dominant interictal spike generator and could initiate ictal activity, suggesting that human cerebellum may become capable of intrinsically generating epileptic activity. ANN NEUROL 2020;88:418–422.