Patients with benign rolandic epilepsy have a longer duration of somatosensory evoked high-frequency oscillations

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Pediatrics International

Volume 46 Issue 6, Pages 631 - 634

Published Online: 22 Dec 2004

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Original Article

Patients with benign rolandic epilepsy have a longer duration of somatosensory evoked high-frequency oscillations

Masaya Kubota , Tuan Diep Tran , Hiroyuki Hirose , Ikumi Kimura and Yoichi Sakakihara

Department of Pediatrics, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Correspondence: Masaya Kubota, Department of Pediatrics, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan. Email: mkmegped@opal.plala.or.jp

KEYWORDS

high-frequency oscillations • magnetoencephalography • rolandic epilepsy

ABSTRACT

Background : High-frequency oscillations (HFO) ranging between 300–900 Hz have been shown to be superimposed on an early component of somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) to median nerve stimulation in humans. Although the HFO are speculated to be a localized activity of the GABAergic inhibitory interneurons, the significance in the epileptogenicity remains unclear. The authors of this study analyzed HFO using magnetoencephalography in patients with benign rolandic epilepsy (BRE) to clarify the neurophysio-logical basis of rolandic discharges (RD).

Methods : Nine patients with BRE and six patients with other epileptic syndrome (non-BRE) participated in the study. Somatosensory evoked fields (SEF) including HFO to median nerve stimulation were measured in a magnetically shielded room with a 37-channel neuromagnetometer.

Results : Two kinds of HFO, 300Hz- and 600Hz-HFO, were identified and the duration of the HFO in patients with BRE was significantly longer than that in patients with non-BRE.

Conclusions : The results suggest that the longer part of HFO (P30m-related) is closely related to the pathogenesis of RD and that the longer HFO in patients with BRE might be mediated by altered GABAergic inhibition modulated by the cholinergic system.

Received 16 October 2003; revised 10 March 2004; accepted 15 April 2004.

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