Paroxysmal slow waves mark ictal networks
Florent J. M. Boyer‐Aymé, Hamza Imtiaz, Ofer Prager, Evyatar Swissa, Alaa Abu Ahmad, Yonatan Serlin, Refat Aboghazleh, Ilan Goldberg, Maayan Ben nun Caller, Idit Tamir, Oded Shor, Ben Whatley, Felix Benninger, Alon Friedman · 2026
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Florent J M Boyer-Aymé leads a 2026 study of brief slow wave bursts on brain recordings as a signpost of hidden seizure networks. Scalp EEG often looks normal between seizures, which stalls diagnosis. The team tracked these bursts in a rat model of temporal lobe epilepsy and in patients under long term monitoring, some with electrodes inside the brain. Bursts clustered in temporal frontal networks and rose around seizures.
In rats the bursts marched in step with deep temporal discharges and answered to drugs that raise or lower seizure risk. In patients, scalp bursts mirrored spike and wave activity in the hippocampus. A look back over 137 seizures in 18 patients confirmed the rise before and during events. The team offers the marker for spotting silent deep foci.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Florent J. M. Boyer‐Aymé, Hamza Imtiaz, Ofer Prager, Evyatar Swissa, Alaa Abu Ahmad, Yonatan Serlin, Refat Aboghazleh, Ilan Goldberg, Maayan Ben nun Caller, Idit Tamir, Oded Shor, Ben Whatley, Felix Benninger, Alon Friedman |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 50776 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |