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For the overwhelming battery of testing I had before lobeectomy (EEGs, MRIs and CTs of course, but also PET, MEG and SEEG) I'd have never imagined that anybody was doing academic research from a timing perspective. I've subsequently dug into A LOT of the physiological research but this is all new to me. The math is WAY beyond me but the general concept is intriguing.

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You could say that there are two main aspects to epilepsy research. One is on the medical side, surgery, drugs, etc., one is more about understanding the phenomenon by studying brain activity and how it behaves. The two are very strongly connected, of course, but the second can also be tackled by engineers, mathematicians, physicists or computer scientists.

You'd be surprised by how many different people work on this subject!

Was it a successful surgery? Which temporal lobe was it on?

Right temporal lobeectomy. Bill Binghamon resected 3 discrete parts. Amygdala, Hippocampus and temporal lobe. The post-op MRI is pretty wild. I'm living alone now and working mostly from home so I could be having seizures and not know but I haven't had anybody say anything. I was having complex partial seizures so unless I drop something and not notice it until later or suddenly realize I peed a little I could never know.

Wow, you had a lot of brain matter removed. I just got out of video EEG yesterday and am hoping I can have surgery, or that it otherwise goes away. Mine is left temporal lobe, which seems like a delicate place for them to operate on. Seems like it’s in the neocortex though, so I’d probably keep my hippocampus and amygdala. I still have a lot of testing left - I don’t know how I’m going to do it all. The video EEG was bad enough. Any regrets or defecits?

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