Intracarotid amobarbital disrupts synchronous and nested oscillatory activity ipsilateral to injection

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Abstract

The mechanism of amobarbital action during the intracarotid amobarbital procedure is poorly understood. We report a patient case who underwent IAP while implanted with bilateral stereo-EEG. We analyzed the spectral power, phase amplitude coupling, and cluster-phase group synchrony during the procedure. Delta and gamma power increased bilaterally. By contrast, phase amplitude coupling increased only ipsilateral to the injection. Similarly, 4–30 Hz cluster-phase group synchrony declines and gamma cluster-phase group synchrony increases only ipsilateral to the injection. These results suggest that a possible additional mechanism for amobarbital action in the IAP is by altering the precise timing of oscillatory activity.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)25-28
Number of pages4
JournalEpilepsy and Behavior Case Reports
Volume10
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2018

Keywords

  • Epilepsy surgery
  • Intracarotid amobarbital procedure
  • Phase amplitude coupling
  • Stereo-EEG
  • Synchrony
  • Wada

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