Dr. Smith presented a project at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) and the American Epilepsy Society (AES) conferences in November and December, respectively. We showed that regions of the brain associated with seizure onset displayed significantly higher levels of cortical excitability when virtually stimulated in a model of the epileptic brain. These findings indicate that important clinical information that is typically gained from electrical stimulation of the brain can be drawn from a simple model built from resting-state data.
