A new study found that patients with epilepsy have significantly weaker connections throughout their brain, particularly in regions important for attention and cognition, compared to individuals without epilepsy.
These weaker brain connections may reflect harmful long-term effects of recurrent seizures, but importantly the connectivity patterns may be used in the future to help locate which part of the brain is causing seizures, and may help doctors plan more effective surgeries.
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