Longitudinal structural and cognitive functional imaging and outcome prediction in focal epilepsy treated with gene therapy and surgical resection.

Background:
In people whose epilepsy does not respond to epilepsy medications (drug refractory epilepsy), epilepsy surgery to remove the part of the brain where seizures arise (the epileptic zone), may be an option. One of the most serious complications of epilepsy surgery is memory and language decline if critical brain areas are removed during…