Forecasting Seizures in Dogs with Naturally Occurring Epilepsy

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 9; no. 1; p. e81920
• Main Authors: Howbert, J. Jeffry, Patterson, Edward E., Stead, S. Matt, Brinkmann, Ben, Vasoli, Vincent, Crepeau, Daniel, Vite, Charles H., Sturges, Beverly, Ruedebusch, Vanessa, Mavoori, Jaideep, Leyde, Kent, Sheffield, W. Douglas, Litt, Brian, Worrell, Gregory A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 08.01.2014; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Algorithms; Animals; Biology; Clusters; Dog Diseases - diagnosis; Dogs; Earthquakes; EEG; Electrodes, Implanted; Electroencephalography; Engineering; Epilepsy; Feasibility studies; Forecasting; Forecasts and trends; Frequencies; Health aspects; Hypotheses; Laboratories; Medicine; Physiological aspects; Physiology; Preempting; Seizing; Seizures; Seizures (Medicine); Seizures - diagnosis; Seizures - veterinary; Surgery; Time Factors; Veterinary medicine; Veterinary Science; Minnesota; California; United States > US; Pennsylvania

Seizure forecasting has the potential to create new therapeutic strategies for epilepsy, such as providing patient warnings and delivering preemptive therapy. Progress on seizure forecasting, however, has been hindered by lack of sufficient data to rigorously evaluate the hypothesis that seizures ar...