Pharmaco-resistant seizures: Self-triggering capacity, scale-free properties and predictability?

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1554-1558

  Osorio, Ivan ^a,b   Frei, Mark G ^b   Sornette, Didier ^c   Milton, John ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Flint Hills Scientific LLC   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d KECK GRADUATE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Human; Inter seizure interval; Predictability; Probability; Scale free; Seizure energy; Self triggering

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SEIZURE; SELF CONCEPT;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; SEIZURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70350247742     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06923.x     Document Type: Article

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