Lancet neurology
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Lancet Neurol
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Malformations of cortical development: burdens and insights from important causes of human epilepsy.
Malformations of cortical development (MCD) are important causes of chronic epilepsy in human beings. A blanket term, MCD encompasses many varied developmental disorders with diverse clinical manifestations in patients that neurologists, paediatricians, and learning disability psychiatrists will encounter. ⋯ Clinical and imaging features, genetic aetiologies, treatments, and the insights that have resulted from MCD study are covered. The burden of epilepsy due to MCD is significant and there is still much to learn about MCD.