Convulsive Seizure Articles & Analysis
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More than 250,000 people are living with epilepsy in Australia, of which 1 in 7 are having difficult-to-notice absence seizures. Such seizures are different from tonic-clonic (convulsive) seizures, and are typically shorter in length, with a brief loss of consciousness. Even though this type of seizure usually ...
The symposium, “Fundamentals of Quantitative Surface Electromyography (sEMG) for Long-Term Monitoring”, has 5 key learning objectives: Understand methods of quantitative sEMG analysis during ictal events; Review specific sEMG patterns of motor seizures and the quantitative EMG biomarkers of convulsive seizures; Discuss how ...
The core of the product is the AI algorithm to detect absence seizures, and upon detection, seizures are automatically signalled and logged and they can be automatically video-recorded too. Different from convulsive seizures, absence seizures are difficult-to-notice, short and the person is not aware of having ...
Knowing the seizure type and classification of seizure events is important to the physician’s ability to make appropriate treatment plan changes. In most cases, the clinician relies on seizure diaries containing eyewitness accounts of events to determine seizure type and classification. ...
” Girouard summed up Brain Sentinel’s progress to date, “The Brain Sentinel journey began simply by trying to help a mother who couldn’t sleep at night because she was worried about her son’s nocturnal seizures. Now, we have a chance to help a whole category of patients suffering from uncontrolled generalized convulsive ...