Epilepsy as a Dynamic Disease /
A "brain defibrillator" may be closer than we think. An epileptic seizure involves a paroxysmal change in the activity of millions of neurons. Feedback control of seizures would require an implantable device that could predict seizure occurrence and then deliver a stimulus to abort it. To...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
2003.
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| Series: | Biological and medical physics series.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Medically Intractable Epilepsy
- 2. Insights into Seizure Propagation from Axonal Conduction Times
- 3. Dynamic Epileptic Systems versus Static Epileptic Foci?- 4. Neuroglia, the Other Brain Cells
- 5. The Electroencephalogram (EEG)
- 6. Electrocorticographic Coherence Patterns of Epileptic Seizures
- 7. Synchronization of Synaptically Coupled Neural Oscillators
- 8. Controlling Neural Synchrony
- 9. Modeling Pattern Formation in Excitable Media
- 10. Are Cardiac Waves Relevant to Epileptic Wave Propagation?- 11. Pattern Formation in the Microbial World
- 12. Predicting Epileptic Seizures
- 13. Comparison of Methods for Seizure Detection
- 14. Direct Deep Brain Stimulation
- 15. Seizure Control Using Feedback and Electric Fields
- 16. Aborting Seizures with a Single Stimulus
- 17. Unstable Periodic Orbits (UPOs) and Chaos Control in Neural Systems
- 18. Prospects for Building a Therapeutic Cortical Stimulator.