In patients with chronic epilepsy, MRI-based detection of an underlying brain lesion can offer the potential for surgical treatment, but a substantial proportion of patients have normal MRI scans. A recent study has shown that repeat neuroimaging with improved MRI technology can enable detection of previously unidentified epileptogenic lesions.
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Seeck, M. Repeat MRI in patients with chronic epilepsy. Nat Rev Neurol 9, 545–546 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrneurol.2013.194
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