PMID- 32272333 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210226 LR - 20210313 IS - 1532-2688 (Electronic) IS - 1059-1311 (Print) IS - 1059-1311 (Linking) VI - 78 DP - 2020 May TI - Controversies on the network theory of epilepsy: Debates held during the ICTALS 2019 conference. PG - 78-85 LID - S1059-1311(20)30085-6 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.seizure.2020.03.010 [doi] AB - Debates on six controversial topics on the network theory of epilepsy were held during two debate sessions, as part of the International Conference for Technology and Analysis of Seizures, 2019 (ICTALS 2019) convened at the University of Exeter, UK, September 2-5 2019. The debate topics were (1) From pathologic to physiologic: is the epileptic network part of an existing large-scale brain network? (2) Are micro scale recordings pertinent for defining the epileptic network? (3) From seconds to years: do we need all temporal scales to define an epileptic network? (4) Is it necessary to fully define the epileptic network to control it? (5) Is controlling seizures sufficient to control the epileptic network? (6) Does the epileptic network want to be controlled? This article, written by the organizing committee for the debate sessions and the debaters, summarizes the arguments presented during the debates on these six topics. CI - Copyright (c) 2020 British Epilepsy Association. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. FAU - Zaveri, Hitten P AU - Zaveri HP AD - Department of Neurology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. FAU - Schelter, Bjorn AU - Schelter B AD - Institute for Complex Systems and Mathematical Biology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK. FAU - Schevon, Catherine A AU - Schevon CA AD - Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. FAU - Jiruska, Premysl AU - Jiruska P AD - Department of Physiology, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. FAU - Jefferys, John G R AU - Jefferys JGR AD - Department of Physiology, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic; Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QT, UK. FAU - Worrell, Gregory AU - Worrell G AD - Mayo Systems Electrophysiology Laboratory, Departments of Neurology and Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. FAU - Schulze-Bonhage, Andreas AU - Schulze-Bonhage A AD - Epilepsy Center, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. FAU - Joshi, Rasesh B AU - Joshi RB AD - Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA. FAU - Jirsa, Viktor AU - Jirsa V AD - Institut de Neurosciences des Systemes, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France. FAU - Goodfellow, Marc AU - Goodfellow M AD - Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK; Wellcome Trust Centre for Biomedical Modelling and Analysis, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK; EPSRC Centre for Predictive Modelling in Healthcare, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK. FAU - Meisel, Christian AU - Meisel C AD - Department of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Neurology, University Clinic Carl Gustav Carus, Fetscherstrasse 74, 01307 Dresden, Germany. FAU - Lehnertz, Klaus AU - Lehnertz K AD - Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Venusberg Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany; Interdisciplinary Center for Complex Systems, University of Bonn, Bruhler Str. 7, 53175 Bonn, Germany. Electronic address: Klaus.Lehnertz@ukbonn.de. LA - eng GR - WT_/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom GR - R01 NS109062/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20200319 PL - England TA - Seizure JT - Seizure JID - 9306979 SB - IM MH - Congresses as Topic MH - Epilepsy/diagnosis/drug therapy/*physiopathology MH - Humans MH - Nerve Net/drug effects/*physiopathology PMC - PMC7952007 MID - NIHMS1673775 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Edges OT - Epileptic network OT - Epileptogenesis OT - Ictogenesis OT - Nodes OT - Seizure control COIS- Declaration of Competing Interest HZ has a grant award from the NIH (USA) on network analysis for epilepsy surgery, and is named as an inventor on patents for monitoring and modulating human brain activity. EDAT- 2020/04/10 06:00 MHDA- 2021/02/27 06:00 PMCR- 2021/03/11 CRDT- 2020/04/10 06:00 PHST- 2020/01/31 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/03/13 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/03/15 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/04/10 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/02/27 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/04/10 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2021/03/11 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S1059-1311(20)30085-6 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.seizure.2020.03.010 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Seizure. 2020 May;78:78-85. doi: 10.1016/j.seizure.2020.03.010. Epub 2020 Mar 19.