In this paper, the temporal characteristic of wavelet subbands of scalp EEG of an epilepsy patient associated with different states of the brain is examined using the so-called number of local min-max. The computational results show that during the seizure onset the number of local min-max of the D1 subband extremely increases while the number of local min-max of the A3 subband remarkably drops...

BACKGROUND Epileptic seizures are often associated with changes in cardiac autonomic function. Yet atrial fibrillation (AFib) or atrial flutter (AFlu) following epileptic seizures has only rarely been reported in the past. OBJECTIVES To describe and characterize patients who experienced lone AFib or AFlu as a consequence of epileptic seizures. DESIGN Case reports. SETTING University teach...

Whether they are called pseudoseizures, non-epileptic seizures, non-epileptic attack disorder, psychogenic seizures or paroxysmal somatoform disorder, 'attacks resembling or mistaken for epilepsy but which do not have the characteristic electrophysiological changes in the brain detectable by electroencephalography which accompany a true epileptic seizure" are common, easily overlooked, often mi...

The diagnosis of epilepsy depends upon a number of factors, particularly detailed and accurate seizure history, or semiology. Other diagnostic data, consisting of electroencephalography, video-monitoring of the seizures, and magnetic resonance imaging, are important in any comprehensive epilepsy program, particularly with respect to lateralizing and localizing the seizure focus, if such a focus...

One of the main areas of behavioural neuroscience is forecasting the human behaviour. Epilepsy is a central nervous system disorder in which nerve cell activity in the brain becomes disrupted, causing seizures or periods of unusual behaviour, sensations and sometimes loss of consciousness. An estimated 5% of the world population has epileptic seizure but there is not any method to cure it. More...

The analysis of pre-epileptic seizure through EEG (electroencephalography) is an important issue for epilepsy diagnosis. Currently, there exist some methods derived from the dynamics to analyse the pre-epileptic EEG data. It is still necessary to create a novel method to better fit and explain the EEG data for making sense of the seizures' predictability. In this paper, a fractal wavelet-based ...

BACKGROUND Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) is a severe childhood epileptic syndrome with high pharmacoresistance. The treatment outcomes are still unsatisfied. Our previous study of cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in children with focal epilepsy showed significant reduction in epileptiform discharges. We hypothesized that cathodal tDCS when applied over the primary motor c...