A Complex Systems Approach to Epilepsy

Rod C. Scott is Division Chief of Neurology at Nemours Children's Health, Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at Thomas Jefferson University, Professor of Neurological Sciences at the University of Vermont, USA and Professor of Paediatric Neuroscience at UCL, UK. Dr Scott has over twenty years of experience managing children with severe epilepsies associated with cognitive and behavioral impairments. J. Matthew Mahoney is a Senior Computational Scientist at The Jackson Laboratory and Research Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences at the University of Vermont. Dr Mahoney uses network theory to understand complex diseases, including the epilepsies and other neurological disorders. His research spans genetics and genomics, computer vision, and electrophysiology.

1. Overview Rod Scott and Matt Mahoney; 2. Systems biological approaches to the genetic complexity of the epilepsies Jeffrey L. Brabec, Montana Kay Lara, Anna L. Tyler and J. Matthew Mahoney; 3. Transcriptomic and epigenomic approaches for epilepsy Anika Bongaarts, Jagoda Glowacka, Konrad Wojdan, Angelika Mühlebner, Eleonora Aronica and James D. Mills; 4. Phenomenological mesoscopic models for seizure activity Maria Luisa Saggio and Viktor K. Jirsa; 5. Computational modeling approaches to epilepsy Yujiang Wang, Gabrielle Marie Schroeder, Nishant Sinha and Peter Taylor; 6. The baseline and epileptiform EEG: a complex systems approach Giridhar P. Kalamangalam and Mircea Chelaru; 7. Neuronal approaches to epilepsy Rod Scott and Matt Mahoney; 8. Mapping epileptic networks with scalp and invasive EEG: applications to epileptogenic zone localization and seizure prediction Manel Vila-Vidal and Adria Tauste Campos; 9. A neuroimaging network-level approach to drug-resistant epilepsy Niels A. Foit, Fatemeh Fadaie, Andrea Bernasconi and Neda Bernasconi; 10. Epilepsy as a complex network disorder: insights from functional MRI David Carmichael, Rory J. Piper and Fraser Aitken.