There has been a traditional conceptual partition between the so-called non-lesional genetic epilepsies and the genetically determined interposed epileptogenic structural abnormalities. In this review, we summarise how growing evidence acquired through neuroimaging and neurobiology modelling is demonstrating that a distinction between lesional and functional (or non-lesional) epileptogenesis is less obvious than previously thought, particularly for epileptogenic neurodevelopmental disorders, but also for most genetically determined epilepsies.

Lesional and non-lesional epilepsies: A blurring genetic boundary

Esposito A.;Fassio A.;
2019-01-01

Abstract

There has been a traditional conceptual partition between the so-called non-lesional genetic epilepsies and the genetically determined interposed epileptogenic structural abnormalities. In this review, we summarise how growing evidence acquired through neuroimaging and neurobiology modelling is demonstrating that a distinction between lesional and functional (or non-lesional) epileptogenesis is less obvious than previously thought, particularly for epileptogenic neurodevelopmental disorders, but also for most genetically determined epilepsies.
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