Scientific Update

Please find below scientific udpates which includes Periventricular Nodular Heterotopia, Grey Matter Heterotopia and Subcortical Band Heterotopia among other malformations of cortical development. We will also include here updates from our collaborators and researchers. 

April 2023

The phenotypic spectrum of epilepsy associated with periventricular nodular heterotopia
Paliotti, K., Dassi, C., Berrahmoune, S. et al. The phenotypic spectrum of epilepsy associated with periventricular nodular heterotopia. J Neurol (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-023-11724-z

February 2023

Early suppression of excitability in subcortical band heterotopia modifies epileptogenesis in rats

Delphine Hardy, Emmanuelle Buhler, Dmitrii Suchkov, Antonin Vinck, Aurélien Fortoul, Françoise Watrin, Alfonso Represa, Marat Minlebaev, Jean-Bernard Manent,
Neurobiology of Disease,
Volume 177,
2023,
106002,
ISSN 0969-9961,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbd.2023.106002.

 

October 2021

Genetic causes underlying grey matter heterotopia

Vriendm I, Oegema, R., Open Access Published:October 09, 2021. Genetic causes underlying grey matter heterotopia DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpn.2021.09.015Sept. 2020

International consensus recommendations on the diagnostic work-up for malformations of cortical development

Nature Reviews. Neurology
Oegema, R., Barakat, T.S., Wilke, M. et al. International consensus recommendations on the diagnostic work-up for malformations of cortical development. Nat Rev Neurol 16, 618–635 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41582-020-0395-6

August 2020

Definitions and classification of malformations of cortical development: practical guidelines

Brain, a journal of Neurology
Mariasavina Severino, Ana Filipa Geraldo, Norbert Utz, Domenico Tortora, Ivana Pogledic, Wlodzimierz Klonowski, Fabio Triulzi, Filippo Arrigoni, Kshitij Mankad, Richard J Leventer, Grazia M S Mancini, James A Barkovich, Maarten H Lequin, Andrea Rossi, on behalf of the European Network on Brain Malformations (Neuro-MIG), Definitions and classification of malformations of cortical development: practical guidelines, Brain, Volume 143, Issue 10, October 2020, Pages 2874–2894, https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awaa174 on behalf of the European Network on Brain Malformations (Neuro-MIG) .

There was a subsequent correction on Table 4:

https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article/doi/10.1093/brain/awaa298/5910748