In a series of 24-hour ambulatory EEG recordings from 1,000 consecutive adult outpatients (44.5% with generalized and 55.5% with partial epilepsy, one recording per patient), the authors found only 46 (4.6%) activations of epileptiform discharges on awakening. All recordings came from patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy, predominantly with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and generalized t...

Understanding the connectivity of the brain neural network and its evolution in epileptiform discharges is meaningful in the epilepsy researches and treatments. In the present study, epileptiform discharges were induced in rat hippocampal slices perfused with Mg2+-free artificial cerebrospinal fluid. The effective connectivity of the hippocampal neural network was studied by comparing the norma...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the correlation between scalp-recorded electroencephalographic (EEG) and electrocorticographic (ECoG) activities during ictal periods. METHODS Simultaneous EEG and ECoG recordings with chronic subdural electrodes were performed in eight patients with partial epilepsy. RESULTS In two cases where the ictal ECoG discharges originated in deep brain structures such as th...

Dielectric surfaces exposed to partial discharges (PD) undergo aging, which is reflected by changes in the discharge pulse form. An approach is described in which fuzzy logic and neural networks are used in conjunction with the wavelet transform to identify the parameters in the PD pulse form for the purpose of classifying the aging phenomena due to partial discharge degradation.

This paper presents the authors’ multi-channel measurement systems designed and built to conduct research on partial discharge phenomena using acoustic emission method. The provide real-time monitoring, recording of signals analysis recorded signals. is carried out in time, frequency, time-frequency discrimination threshold domains. In particular, a descriptor with ADC acronym defined, which ra...