As part of this therapeutic surgery, both epileptic and nearby regions with less or
no epileptic electrical activity were also removed.
They found that tissue with high levels of
epileptic electrical activity was low in lactate and had higher levels of creatine, phosphocreatine and choline, suggestive of abnormal metabolism.
Not exact matches
Nicholas Steinmetz and colleagues found that some mice expressing the genetically - encoded calcium sensor GCaMP6 display brief bursts of
electrical activity, commonly observed in
epileptic patients and animal models.
The instrument would be implanted in the brain of an
epileptic and detect patterns of
electrical discharge.
Loeb and colleagues used a technique called magnetic resonance spectroscopy to identify the metabolomic signature of
epileptic versus non-
epileptic brain tissues removed from nine patients who underwent invasive
electrical brain monitoring as part of their epilepsy surgery.
In fact, Upton says, if the cycle of headaches — or seizures, for
epileptics — is broken, then the patient may «forget» the pattern of
electrical activity that leads to the symptoms.
For example,
electrical stimulation of this nerve has been shown to reduce the rate of
epileptic seizures and help with depressive symptoms.
In addition to smelling ketones, Sanchez said that dogs might also have a «sixth sense» that can detect changes in
electrical activity, which is how some dogs are able to warn
epileptics before they have seizures.
During an
epileptic seizure random
electrical impulses are sent from the nerve cells of your pet's brain to muscles throughout its body.