Search Results - subject:"Epilepsy"

Dynamic analysis of heartbeat rate signals of epileptics using multidimensional phase space reconstruction approach

Su, Zhi-Yuan; Wu, Tzuyin; Yang, Po-Hua; Wang, Yeng-Tseng - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 387 (2008) 10, pp. 2293-2305

as epilepsy, cardiac disease and so forth. The current study analyses the dynamics of the heartbeat rate signal of known … epilepsy sufferers in order to obtain a detailed understanding of the heart rate pattern during a seizure event. In the …

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Connectivity Inference between Neural Structures via Partial Directed Coherence

Takahashi, Daniel Yasumasa; Baccal, Luiz Antonio; … - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 34 (2007) 10, pp. 1259-1273

This paper describes the rigorous asymptotic distributions of the recently introduced partial directed coherence (PDC) - a frequency domain description of Granger causality between multivariate time series represented by vector autoregressive models. We show that, when not zero, PDC is...

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Relaxation and phase space singularities in time series of human magnetoencephalograms as indicator of photosensitive epilepsy

Yulmetyev, R.M.; Hänggi, P.; Yulmetyeva, D.G.; Shimojo, S. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 383 (2007) 2, pp. 443-454

which is then contrasted with those of a patient suffering photosensitive epilepsy (PSE). We found that the existence of the …

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Computational modeling of the dependence of kindling rate on network properties

Biswal, B.; Niranjan, B.R.; Ullal, G.; Dasgupta, C. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 364 (2006) C, pp. 565-580

network model for kindling of focal epilepsy. Simulations are performed for models of both chemical and electrical kindling …

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Psychoeducational Programs for Patients with Epilepsy

May, Theodor W.; Pfafflin, Margarete - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 13 (2005) 3, pp. 185-199

Epilepsy is a common neurological disease, which affects people of all ages. Patients often have deficits regarding … their knowledge of epilepsy. Many of them have recurrent seizures, psychosocial, and emotional problems and report … restrictions in daily living as a result of their epilepsy. Meanwhile, a variety of psychoeducational programs have been developed …

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A Review of the Costs of Managing Childhood Epilepsy

Beghi, Ettore; Frigeni, Barbara; Beghi, Massimiliano; … - In: PharmacoEconomics 23 (2005) 1, pp. 27-45

Epilepsy is a chronic treatable condition for which new diagnostic tools and several new drugs and non … focusing on studies of childhood epilepsy. Several methodological problems arise when interpreting the results of economic … studies in epilepsy, including the variability of the study population and costs items, the reliability of the sources of cost …

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Economic Evaluation of Levetiracetam as an Add-On Therapy in Patients with Refractory Epilepsy

Blais, Lucie; Sheehy, Odile; Saint-Hilaire, Jean-Marc; … - In: PharmacoEconomics 23 (2005) 5, pp. 493-503

treatment for refractory epilepsy from the Canadian Ministry of Health perspective. The main objective is to estimate the …-controlled trials performed in 904 patients, aged 16-70 years, with at least 1 year history of epilepsy, two to four partial seizures … increased cost of treating patients (with refractory epilepsy) with levetiracetam may be partially offset by a reduction in …

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The Importance of Drug Adverse Effects Compared with Seizure Control for People with Epilepsy: A Discrete Choice Experiment

Lloyd, Andrew; McIntosh, Emma; Price, Martin - In: PharmacoEconomics 23 (2005) 11, pp. 1167-1181

preference discrete choice experiment (DCE) was used to explore the preferences of people with epilepsy regarding the adverse … expert consultation. In addition, a national epilepsy patient advocacy group helped to identify important attributes and … hundred members of a national patient advocacy group with a diagnosis of epilepsy were presented with pairs of hypothetical …

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Quantitative EEG analysis of the maturational changes associated with childhood absence epilepsy

Rosso, O.A.; Hyslop, W.; Gerlach, R.; Smith, R.L.L.; … - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 356 (2005) 1, pp. 184-189

This study aimed to examine the background electroencephalography (EEG) in children with childhood absence epilepsy, a … those patients demonstrating absence seizure activity, and compare it with children without absence epilepsy. This … patients versus controls. For all channels combined, patients with absence epilepsy showed (statistically significant) lower …

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The Department of Health (England) Action Plan for Improving Services for People with Epilepsy: Will It Improve Quality of Care?

Besag, Frank M.C. - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 12 (2004) 3, pp. 143-146

Issues related to avoidable mortality in people with epilepsy have been highlighted in the National Sentinel Clinical … Audit of Epilepsy-Related Death in the UK. This audit concluded that 39% of adult epilepsy-related deaths and 59% of … epilepsy-related deaths in children were potentially or probably avoidable. Particular attention was drawn to the important and …

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