“…There was the hope of providing useful clinical information particularly in patients undergoing pre-surgical evaluation. A detailed discussion of the literature is beyond the scope of this article and can be found in reviews (Cunningham et al, 2008;Gotman, 2008;Gotman et al, 2006;Gotman and Pittau, 2011;Hamandi et al, 2004;Krakow, 2008;Laufs and Duncan, 2007;Richardson, 2010;Rosenkranz and Lemieux, 2010;Salek-Haddadi et al, 2003;Stern, 2006;Yu et al, 2005). In summary, research advanced from feasibility studies Hamandi et al, 2004;Lemieux, 2004;Salek-Haddadi et al, 2003;Stern, 2006;Yu et al, 2005) to those attempting to identify the irritative zones in individual or cohorts of patients with focal Krakow et al, 1999;Patel et al, 1999;Salek-Haddadi et al, 2006) or generalized epilepsy syndromes (Aghakhani et al, 2004;Hamandi et al, 2006), or patients with a particular type of pathology (Federico et al, 2005b;Kobayashi et al, 2007;Kobayashi et al, 2006b;Kobayashi et al, 2005).…”