Epilepsy as a Dynamic Disease (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Milton, John; Jung, Peter

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Seitenzahl: 417
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783662050484
• Artikelnr.: 53091234

Inhaltsangabe

1 Medically Intractable Epilepsy.- 2 Insights into Seizure Propagation from Axonal Conduction Times.- 3 Dynamic Epileptic Systems Versus Static Epileptic Foci?.- 4 Neuroglia, the Other Brain Cells.- 5 The Electroencephalogram (EEG): A Measure of Neural Synchrony.- 6 Electrocorticographic Coherence Patterns of Epileptic Seizures.- 7 Synchronization of Synaptically-Coupled Neural Oscillators.- 8 Controling Neural Synchrony with Periodic and Aperiodic Stimuli.- 9 Modeling Pattern Formation in Excitable Media: The Legacy of Norbert Wiener.- 10 Are Cardiac Waves Relevant to Epileptic Wave Propagation?.- 11 Pattern Formation in the Microbial World: Dictyostelium Discoideum.- 12 Predicting Epileptic Seizures.- 13 Comparison of Methods for Seizure Detection.- 14 Direct Deep Brain Stimulation: First Steps Towards the Feedback Control of Seizures.- 15 Seizure Control Using Feedback and Electric Fields.- 16 Aborting Seizures with a Single Stimulus: The Case for Multistability.- 17 Unstable Periodic Orbits (UPOs) and Chaos Control in Neural Systems.- 18 Prospects for Building a Therapeutic Cortical Stimulator.- 19 Brain Defibrillators: Synopsis, Problems and Future Directions.- Color Plates.- References.