Abstract #1262

Cortical and Sub-Cortical Networks in Children with Absence Epilepsy.

Patrick Carney^1,2, Danny Flannagan¹, David Abbott¹, Richard Masterton¹, Ingrid Scheffer², Simon Harvey³, Sam Berkovic², Graeme Jackson^1,2

¹Florey Neuroscience Institutes, Brain Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; ²University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; ³Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Absence seizures are a common seizure type in children. EEG-fMRI provides a method to identify the networks underpinning seizure generation. This study provides a group analysis of 10 children with absence seizures showing thalamo-cortical and subcortical networks involved in seizure generation.