Abstracts

Summary: Dramatic advances in noninvasive methods for mapping cortical function have been rapidly incorporated into the clinical assessment of epilepsy surgery patients. While these techniques are valuable, direct electrical stimulation mapping is still routinely used and is considered the gold standard in the clinical arena. In recent years, a number of groups have refined methods for using electrodes implanted in patients undergoing invasive monitoring for epilepsy in order to carry out research on human cortical function. This workshop will explore how these studies can serve as a powerful adjunct to monkey invasive electrode studies and work with human fMRI, and then review examples of the application of some of the current research methods for studying higher cortical function in patients undergoing invasive monitoring, with an eye towards how the field has advanced beyond the classic methods of Penfield.