Kirsten Vinter

Preoperative limbic cortical thinning in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy surgical candidates is associated with pre-existing and de novo postoperative depression.

Four of the six frontotemporal regions showing the largest morphometric alterations in MDD also exhibit reduced cortical thickness in mTLE patients with past or future depression, which supports depression in mTLE as an expression of network pathology common to MDD, while residual regional differences may help explain the distinct phenotypic presentations of depression in these neuropsychiatric disorders.