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Disordered brain activity in Rolandic epilepsy can be influenced by brief sounds during sleep

Rolandic epilepsy is a common form of epilepsy in children which occurs primarily during sleep. Short sounds played during sleep can partially suppress the neuronal discharges characteristic of ...
Science Daily

First Gene Discovered For Most Common Form Of Epilepsy

Researchers have uncovered the first gene linked to the most common type of epilepsy, called Rolandic epilepsy. One out of every five children with epilepsy is diagnosed with this form, which is ...
Nature

Lesions in the right Rolandic operculum are associated with self-rating affective and apathetic depressive symptoms for post-stroke patients

Stroke survivors majorly suffered from post-stroke depression (PSD). The PSD diagnosis is commonly performed based on the clinical cut-off for psychometric inventories. However, we hypothesized that ...
Nature

Exome-wide analysis of mutational burden in patients with typical and atypical Rolandic epilepsy

Exome sequencing of all individuals was performed with the Illumina HiSeq 2000 using the EZ Human Exome Library Kit (NimbleGen, Madison, WI). Sequencing adapters were trimmed and samples with <30× ...