Richard Bronen
Department of Diagnostic Radiology
richard.bronen@yale.edu

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Research
Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is playing an increasingly important role in the evaluation of epilepsy. Human epilepsy is associated with many types of conditions affecting the brain. Thus, the study of epilepsy with MR runs the gamut of cerebral disorders. These include tumors, vascular malformations, hippocampal sclerosis, migration disorders, perinatal insults, infections, trauma, and stroke. MR imaging is particularly important for the patient with medically intractable epilepsy (approximately 30% of epileptics) who may be a candidate for surgical control of their epilepsy, because MR usually detects the responsible lesion and guides decision making and surgical management.

Current epilepsy research includes the investigation of the sensitivity and specificity of MR in the surgical epilepsy group, correlation of MR with histologic findings, comparison of MR with EEG in the general and pediatric epilepsy population, and building a digital imaging database of MR findings associated with seizure foci.Other MR research - autism and Tourette's syndrome.