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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Epilepsia. 2016 Aug 24;57(10):1546–1557. doi: 10.1111/epi.13510

Figure 4. Widespread decreases in neocortical functional connectivity in focal epilepsy patients.

Figure 4

Compared to control subjects, patients with left MTLE (A), right MTLE (B), left FNE (C), and right FNE (D) demonstrated decreased functional connectivity in widespread neocortical regions, including fronto-parietal and posterior temporal association cortex, peri-sylvian neocortex, orbital frontal cortex, as well as decreased subcortical connectivity in basal forebrain and anterior thalamus. Connectivity maps represent t-tests (threshold p < 0.01, FDR-corrected) of alpha-band imaginary coherence in patients with left MTLE (N = 18), right MTLE (N = 12), left FNE (N = 17) or right FNE (N = 14) compared to controls, overlaid on a 3D-rendered template brain. FDR: false discovery rate; FNE: focal neocortical epilepsy; MTLE: mesial temporal lobe epilepsy; RSFC: resting-state functional connectivity. Modified with permission from Englot et al, 2015.43