Brain areas involved in medial temporal lobe seizures: a principal component analysis of ictal SPECT data

Weder, Bruno J; Schindler, Kaspar; Loher, Thomas J; Wiest, Roland; Wissmeyer, Michael; Ritter, Peter; Lovblad, Karl; Donati, Filippo; Missimer, John (2006). Brain areas involved in medial temporal lobe seizures: a principal component analysis of ictal SPECT data. Human brain mapping, 27(6), pp. 520-34. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Blackwell 10.1002/hbm.20196

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The study describes brain areas involved in medial temporal lobe (mTL) seizures of 12 patients. All patients showed so-called oro-alimentary behavior within the first 20 s of clinical seizure manifestation characteristic of mTL seizures. Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) images of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) were acquired from the patients in ictal and interictal phases and from normal volunteers. Image analysis employed categorical comparisons with statistical parametric mapping and principal component analysis (PCA) to assess functional connectivity. PCA supplemented the findings of the categorical analysis by decomposing the covariance matrix containing images of patients and healthy subjects into distinct component images of independent variance, including areas not identified by the categorical analysis. Two principal components (PCs) discriminated the subject groups: patients with right or left mTL seizures and normal volunteers, indicating distinct neuronal networks implicated by the seizure. Both PCs were correlated with seizure duration, one positively and the other negatively, confirming their physiological significance. The independence of the two PCs yielded a clear clustering of subject groups. The local pattern within the temporal lobe describes critical relay nodes which are the counterpart of oro-alimentary behavior: (1) right mesial temporal zone and ipsilateral anterior insula in right mTL seizures, and (2) temporal poles on both sides that are densely interconnected by the anterior commissure. Regions remote from the temporal lobe may be related to seizure propagation and include positively and negatively loaded areas. These patterns, the covarying areas of the temporal pole and occipito-basal visual association cortices, for example, are related to known anatomic paths.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Head Organs and Neurology (DKNS) > Clinic of Neurology 04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Radiology, Neuroradiology and Nuclear Medicine (DRNN) > Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology
UniBE Contributor:	Loher, Thomas, Wiest, Roland Gerhard Rudi
ISSN:	1065-9471
ISBN:	16180211
Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell
Language:	English
Submitter:	Factscience Import
Date Deposited:	04 Oct 2013 14:46
Last Modified:	02 Mar 2023 23:22
Publisher DOI:	10.1002/hbm.20196
PubMed ID:	16180211
Web of Science ID:	000237814000006
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/19091 (FactScience: 1460)