HealthMeet® Webinar: Improving Seizure Outcomes Through Online Seizure Diaries

HealthMeet® Webinar: Improving Seizure Outcomes Through Online Seizure Diaries

Improving Seizure Outcomes Through Online Seizure Diaries

Time: Wednesday, January 29, 2014, from 2:00pm to 3:00 PM EST

SeizureTracker.com is an innovative website dedicated to help individuals that have frequent seizures and epilepsy understand the relationship between their seizures, medications/dosages and daily variables to help reduce seizure activity and understand the triggers. Rob Moss, the Co-Founder of SeizureTracker.com, will share some of the tools and personalized reports the system can generate to help empower patients about their medical needs. These reports can then be shared with your doctors to help them better understand and search for answers to your specific situation to improve daily living.

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Musical Brain Patterns Could Help Predict Epileptic Seizures

ScienceDaily (June 15, 2012) — The research led by Newcastle University's Dr Mark Cunningham and Professor Miles Whittington and supported by the Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research, indicates a novel electrical bio-marker in humans.

The brain produces electrical rhythms and using EEG -- electrodes on the scalp -- researchers were able to monitor the brain patterns in patients with epilepsy. Both in patients and in brain tissue samples the team were able to witness an abnormal brain wave noticeable due to its rapidly increasing frequency over time.

Comparing these to a musical 'glissando', an upwards glide from one pitch to another, the team found that this brain rhythm is unique to humans and they believe it could be related to epilepsy.

Dr Cunningham, senior lecturer in Neuronal Dynamics at Newcastle University said: "We were able to examine EEG collected from patients with drug resistant epilepsy who were continually monitored over a two week period. During that time we noticed patterns of electrical activity with rapidly increasing frequency, just like glissandi, emerging in the lead-up to an epileptic seizure."

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