Resting-state functional-connectivity MRI has identified abnormalities in patients with a wide range of neuropsychiatric disorders, including epilepsy due to malformations of cortical development. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in combination with EEG can demonstrate that patients with epilepsy have cortical hyperexcitability in regions with abnormal connectivity.
Shafi, M. M., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., Chu, C. J., Pascual-Leone, A., Chang, B. S. A Multimodal Imaging- and Stimulation-based Method of Evaluating Connectivity-related Brain Excitability in Patients with Epilepsy. J. Vis. Exp. (117), e53727, doi:10.3791/53727 (2016).