Looking at pictures with electrodes in your head: Confirming animal data and improving computer models

by time news

Normally, no electrodes are placed in the brain for research in humans, but sometimes they are in the case of epilepsy patients. An epileptic seizure has a specific origin somewhere in the brain. In patients where medicines do not work, the last option can be chosen to operate on the brain. Prior to this, electrodes are first placed under the skull on the brain to measure brain activities.

The origin of an epileptic seizure can be easily recognized by characteristically increased brain activity. Groen: ‘Twenty or thirty years ago, such a preoperative brain activity measurement was still very rare, but it is now becoming safer. In addition, there is also more collaboration between researchers like me and the treating physicians, which means that we can sometimes combine treatment and research.’

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