<p>Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common pharmacoresistant epilepsy in adults, yet few patients receive curative surgery due to diagnostic and prognostic uncertainty. In a multicenter cohort, we analyzed multimodal MRI and clinical data from 282 TLE patients, 298 healthy controls, and 45 disease controls. Patient-specific deviations from typical lifespan trajectories of intrinsic brain function were mapped using normative modeling. Regional functional alterations were heterogeneous but overlapped most in the mesiotemporal cortex. Connectome-based simulations revealed abnormality spread followed structural network architecture, highlighting the hippocampus as well as paralimbic and medial default-mode regions as epicenters. Multimodal integration implicated superficial white-matter microstructural alterations as a key contributor. Supervised models achieved AUCs of 0.77 for distinguishing TLE from disease controls, 0.74 for lateralizing seizure focus, and 0.64 for predicting postsurgical seizure freedom; greater contralateral temporal deviations predicted poorer outcomes. These findings support individualized functional biomarkers for precision presurgical care in focal epilepsy.</p>

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Personalized biomarkers of multiscale functional alterations in temporal lobe epilepsy

  • Ke Xie,
  • Ella Sahlas,
  • Alexander Ngo,
  • Judy Chen,
  • Thaera Arafat,
  • Jessica Royer,
  • Yigu Zhou,
  • Raúl Rodríguez-Cruces,
  • Arielle Dascal,
  • Benoit Caldairou,
  • Fatemeh Fadaie,
  • Alexander Barnett,
  • Samantha Audrain,
  • Sara Larivière,
  • Lorenzo Caciagli,
  • Raluca Pana,
  • Alexander G. Weil,
  • Christophe Grova,
  • Birgit Frauscher,
  • Dewi V. Schrader,
  • Zhiqiang Zhang,
  • Luis Concha,
  • Andrea Bernasconi,
  • Neda Bernasconi,
  • Boris C. Bernhardt

摘要

Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common pharmacoresistant epilepsy in adults, yet few patients receive curative surgery due to diagnostic and prognostic uncertainty. In a multicenter cohort, we analyzed multimodal MRI and clinical data from 282 TLE patients, 298 healthy controls, and 45 disease controls. Patient-specific deviations from typical lifespan trajectories of intrinsic brain function were mapped using normative modeling. Regional functional alterations were heterogeneous but overlapped most in the mesiotemporal cortex. Connectome-based simulations revealed abnormality spread followed structural network architecture, highlighting the hippocampus as well as paralimbic and medial default-mode regions as epicenters. Multimodal integration implicated superficial white-matter microstructural alterations as a key contributor. Supervised models achieved AUCs of 0.77 for distinguishing TLE from disease controls, 0.74 for lateralizing seizure focus, and 0.64 for predicting postsurgical seizure freedom; greater contralateral temporal deviations predicted poorer outcomes. These findings support individualized functional biomarkers for precision presurgical care in focal epilepsy.