Epileptic attack treatment device ...

The American scientists have developed the device distinguishing coming nearer epileptic attack and preventing its electric impulses.

From 30 to 50 percent sick of an epilepsy cannot get rid completely of cramps by means of medicines. Considering that this disease suffer from 5 to 10 persons from thousand, the alternative of medicinal therapy or the additive to it are necessary tens millions patients all over the world.

The epileptic attack occurs, when for any of several reasons in any site of a brain there is a centre of the raised electric activity which is so strong that extends on the next sites of a brain that is shown by cramps, absentias epileptica etc.

Californian company Neuropace has developed implanted into a cavity of a skull the device which registers the electric activity previous an attack, and will neutralise its series of electric impulses.
To program the device for each concrete patient, the doctor should define precisely a site of the centre of electric activity in a brain by means of an electroencephalography and an electrocorticography. Then during the so-called period of optimisation character of cramps at the patient is specified and steals up neutralised it impulses.
In clinical tests with participation of 200 patients to which were helped by medicinal therapy, the device reduced frequency of cramps for 29 percent. Thus significant by-effects of treatment it has not been fixed, except reversible complications of implantation.

Besides prevention of attacks, the device registers electric activity of a brain of the patient and by means of the wireless gauge transfers these data in the computer for transfer to the attending physician.

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