Longitudinal behavioural and brain morphological changes before and after hemispherotomy

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Hemispherotomy is an effective surgery for treating refractory epilepsy from diffuse unihemispheric lesions[1], [2]. To date, however, postsurgery neuroplastic changes following pediatric hemispherotomy remain unclear. In the present study, we aim to systematically investigate longitudinal changes in gray matter volume (GMV) before and after surgery in two groups of pediatric patients with left and right hemispherotomy.