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Date Time 3-D ‘Heat Map’ Animation Shows How Seizures Spread in Brains of Patients with Epilepsy For 29 years, from the time she was 12, Rashetta Higgins had been wracked by epileptic seizures – as many as 10 a week – in her sleep, at school and at work. She lost four jobs over 10 years. One seizure brought her down as she was climbing concrete stairs, leaving a bloody scene and a bad gash near her eye. A seizure struck in 2005 while she was waiting at the curb for a bus. “I fell down right when the bus was pulling up,” she says. “My friend grabbed me just in time. I fell a lot. I’ve had concussions. I’ve gone unconscious. It has put a lot of wear and tear on my body.” ....
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LLNL-Developed Electrodes Produce View of Brain Activity Never Seen Before independentnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from independentnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Surface brain waves tapped at UC San Francisco Flexible thin-film electrodes developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have been used at UC San Francisco to record human brain activity on the surface of the brain’s hippocampus area. “We’ve developed an enabling technology for demonstrating a phenomenon that wasn’t really possible before,” says LLNL’s Implantable Microsystems Group Leader Razi Haque, “this challenge required creation of novel, conformable and higher-density electrodes that allows them to be more flexible and wrap around specific, deep regions of the brain. This study is validation that the approaches we’re using are getting us consistent, usable and useful data.” ....