Benison Lau

Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder characterized by seizures. Medication exists as a palliative treatment for many individuals; however, the treatments may not be effective for all individuals and breakthrough seizures may still occur. Surgery is an option where the focal abnormality causing epilepsy can be located and removed with the goal of total control of epileptic seizures.

Large abnormalities are relatively easy to detect; while smaller abnormalities in the cortical grey matter are less well understood and more difficult to detect. Improved understanding and detection of these focal abnormalities through use of MRI, a part of the routine neurological examination used in diagnosis of epilepsy, may led to more precise surgeries or more profound effect.