Focal cortical dysplasias are a well-recognized cause of medically intractable seizures. The clinical relevance of certain subgroups of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE ...

AI-powered tool improves the detection of focal cortical dysplasia. Download PDF Copy; Reviewed. King's College London Feb 24 2025.

More information: Xiaodong Zhang et al, Focal cortical dysplasia lesion segmentation using multiscale transformer, Insights into Imaging (2024). DOI: 10.1186/s13244-024-01803-8.

Scientists have developed an AI-powered tool that detects 64% of brain abnormalities linked to epilepsy that human ...

Bonn, April 16, 2025 - Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) type 2 is a congenital malformation of the cerebral cortex that is often associated with difficult-to-treat epilepsy. In the affected areas ...

50 years ago back in 1971, David C. Taylor and colleagues from England reported on a small series of surgical epilepsy cases proposing a new type of tissue lesion as a cause of difficult-to-treat ...

Focal cortical dysplasia is a malformation of the cerebral cortex associated with one of the most severe types of epilepsy. Treatment is difficult owing to a lack of effective drugs or access to ...

However, the majority of specimens in Taylor´s series did contain balloon cells, i.e. focal cortical dysplasia Type IIB, representing the most common correlate of “FCD” or “Taylor type dysplasia” as ...

Positive predictive value in detecting epileptogenic focal cortical dysplasia was higher with MELD Graph compared with the existing baseline algorithm. HealthDay News — A graph neural network ...

04/16/2025 10:52 Insights into dopamine in focal cortical dysplasia: How disturbed signaling pathways could promote epileptic seizures Jana Schäfer Kommunikation und Medien Universitätsklinikum Bonn ...

Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) type 2 is a congenital malformation of the cerebral cortex that is often associated with difficult-to-treat epilepsy. In the affected areas, nerve cells and their ...