Engineering and Epilepsy: Sensing, Analyzing and Intervening to Control the Expression of an Inter

Speaker: Hitten Zaveri, Ph.D.Associate Research Scientist
Department of Neurology
Yale UniversityAbstract: There has been considerable progress in recent years by an interdisciplinary effort composed of engineers, mathematicians and physicists working in close collaboration with neurologists, neurosurgeons and neuroscientists to understand epilepsy. These advances have improved our ability to capture normal and aberrant brain activity, analyze it and intervene to control the expression of seizures and led to the development of brain implantable devices as a therapeutic option. This talk covers several aspects of this effort with particular attention to the time-series analysis of intracranial EEGs to: (1) understand the process of seizure generation, (2) to localize areas of seizure onset and (3) to predict the onset of seizures.

Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 539

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Talyia Veal