Is long-term electroencephalogram more appropriate than standard electroencephalogram in the elderly?

Epilepsy is frequent in the elderly; the estimated prevalence is 1-2% in people over the age of 60 (Brodie and Kwan, 2005; Hauser et al., 1993) and 7.7% in institutionalized patients over 65 (Garrard et al., 2003).The increasing incidence of epilepsy in the elderly has been linked to the increase in “structural” causes - especially stroke (So et al., 1996) and dementia. However, around 25% of cases are “idiopathic” (Ramsay et al., 2004), which suggests that the brain is predisposed to generate epileptic seizures.

Source: Clinical Neurophysiology - October 26, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: M. Chochoi, L. Tyvaert, P. Derambure, W. Szurhaj Source Type: research