Epilepsy as a Dynamic Disease

ISBN 10: 3642076653 / ISBN 13: 9783642076657

Published by Springer, 2010

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Print on Demand pp. xxxii + 417 214 Illus. (24 Col.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Epilepsy as a Dynamic Disease
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3642076653
• ISBN 13: 9783642076657
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book on "Epilepsy as a Dynamic Disease" focuses on the diagnosis and treatment by controlling the mechanisms of epilepsy. It appeals to medical doctors, researhcers in neurology, medical physicists and advanced students.

From the Back Cover

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 examine the feasibility of building such a device, this text brings together experts in epilepsy, bio-engineering, and dynamical systems theory. Topics include the development of epileptic systems, seizure prediction, neural synchronization, wave phenomena in excitable media, and the control of complex neural dynamics using brief electrical stimuli.