Development of a functional magnetic resonance imaging protocol for intraoperative localization of critical temporoparietal language areas

GJM Rutten, NF Ramsey, PC Van Rijen… - Annals of Neurology …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging as
an alternative to intraoperative electrocortical stimulation mapping for the localization of …

Distribution of glutamate transporters in the hippocampus of patients with pharmaco‐resistant temporal lobe epilepsy

EA Proper, G Hoogland, SM Kappen, GH Jansen… - Brain, 2002 - academic.oup.com
In patients suffering from temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), increased extracellular glutamate
levels in the epileptogenic hippocampus both during and after clinical seizures have been …

Expression and cellular distribution of multidrug transporter proteins in two major causes of medically intractable epilepsy: focal cortical dysplasia and glioneuronal …

E Aronica, JA Gorter, GH Jansen, CWM Van Veelen… - Neuroscience, 2003 - Elsevier
The cell-specific distribution of multidrug resistance extrusion pumps was studied in
developmental glioneuronal lesions, including focal cortical dysplasia (15 cases) and …

FMRI-determined language lateralization in patients with unilateral or mixed language dominance according to the Wada test

GJM Rutten, NF Ramsey, PC van Rijen, WC Alpherts… - Neuroimage, 2002 - Elsevier
Due to the reported variability of the language laterality index (LI) across fMRI studies,
reliable distinction between patients with unilateral and mixed language dominance is …

Reproducibility of fMRI-determined language lateralization in individual subjects

GJM Rutten, NF Ramsey, PC Van Rijen… - Brain and language, 2002 - Elsevier
This study investigated within-subject test–retest reproducibility (ie, reliability) of language
lateralization obtained with fMRI. Nine healthy subjects performed the same set of three …

Measurement of the conductivity of skull, temporarily removed during epilepsy surgery

R Hoekema, GH Wieneke, FSS Leijten… - Brain topography, 2003 - Springer
The conductivity of the human skull plays an important role in source localization of brain
activity, because it is low as compared to other tissues in the head. The value usually taken …

Reduced glutamine synthetase in hippocampal areas with neuron loss in temporal lobe epilepsy

WS Van der Hel, RGE Notenboom, IWM Bos… - Neurology, 2005 - AAN Enterprises
Background: Increased levels of glutamate have been reported in the epileptogenic
hippocampus of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). This sustained increase, which …

Glioneuronal tumors and medically intractable epilepsy: a clinical study with long-term follow-up of seizure outcome after surgery

E Aronica, S Leenstra, CWM van Veelen, PC van Rijen… - Epilepsy research, 2001 - Elsevier
The present study intends to identify factors that predict postoperative clinical outcome in
patients with gangliogliomas (GG) and dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumors (DNT). We …

Ionotropic and metabotropic glutamate receptor protein expression in glioneuronal tumours from patients with intractable epilepsy

E Aronica, B Yankaya, GH Jansen… - Neuropathology and …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Glioneuronal tumours are an increasingly recognized cause of chronic pharmaco‐resistant
epilepsy. In the present study the immunocytochemical expression of various glutamate …

Material-specific recognition memory deficits elicited by unilateral hippocampal electrical stimulation

SG Coleshill, CD Binnie, RG Morris… - Journal of …, 2004 - Soc Neuroscience
Although the medial temporal lobe is thought to be critical for recognition memory (RM), the
specific role of the hippocampus in RM remains uncertain. We investigated the effects of …