Diagnosis of epilepsy after first seizure. Introducing the SWISS FIRST study
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‘Functional Connectivity’ Is a Sensitive Predictor of Epilepsy Diagnosis after the First Seizure
BACKGROUND Although epilepsy affects almost 1% of the world population, diagnosis of this debilitating disease is still difficult. The EEG is an important tool for epilepsy diagnosis and classification, but the sensitivity of interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs) on the first EEG is only 30-50%. Here we investigate whether using 'functional connectivity' can improve the diagnostic sensitivi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2514-183X,2514-183X
DOI: 10.1177/2514183x20939448