SEIZURE WARNING AND PREDICTION

摘要

Impending seizure warning (ISW), seizure susceptibility period detection (SSPD), hours or days before an impending seizure, and time to impending seizure prediction (TISP) are provided by measuring each of a number of signals from different locations about a patient's brain, and generating therefrom, a spatio-temporal response based on these signals. Chaoticity profiles are then generated for each spatio-temporal response. Over a period of time, a determination is made as to whether a certain level of dynamic entrainment exists between the chaoticity profiles associated with the responses from a set of critical locations. If so, a seizure warning, an indication of seizure susceptibility and a prediction of a time of occurrence of an impending seizure may be issued.