Identifying responders to vagus nerve stimulation based on microstructural features of thalamocortical tracts in drug-resistant epilepsy
Berger A, Cerra M, Joris V, Danthine V, Macq B, Dricot L, Vandewalle G, Delinte N, El Tahry R
Neurotherapeutics · 2024
Key finding
Multiple diffusion metrics consistently demonstrated significantly higher white matter fiber integrity in patients with a better response to VNS (pFDR < 0.05) in different subsegments of thalamocortical tracts.
- Condition
- Neuroimaging
- Stimulation
- taVNS
- Evidence tier
- Controlled Clinical Trial
- Participants
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Cite this study
Berger, A., Cerra, M., Joris, V., Danthine, V., Macq, B., Dricot, L., Vandewalle, G., Delinte, N., & El Tahry, R. (2024). Identifying responders to vagus nerve stimulation based on microstructural features of thalamocortical tracts in drug-resistant epilepsy. Neurotherapeutics, 21(5), e00422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurot.2024.e00422
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