Onset Of Poly-Spike Complexes In A Mean-Field Model Of Human EEG And Its Application To Absence Epilepsy

Main Category: Epilepsy
Also Included In: Neurology / Neuroscience
Article Date: 16 Feb 2009 - 3:00 PDT

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The paper reports the findings of a novel study linking researchers in Engineering Mathematics at the University of Bristol (a unique department in the UK) with those in Clinical Epilepsy at King's College London.

The study demonstrates how a mathematical description of the human Electroencephalogram (EEG) - a measure of the aggregated electrical activity of neurons in the human cortex - can be used to explain transitions in observed activity between healthy periods and seizure states.

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