S18-1. Progress in EEG analysis for epilepsy and the outlook for the future

Epileptic seizures are the result of excessive and abnormal neuronal activities in the cortex of the cerebrum. Hans Berger (German) initially recorded EEG activities of alpha and beta waves with in 1924. Gibbs, Davis and Lennox described interictal spikes and 3  Hz spike-and-wave pattern on absence seizures in 1935. Jasper and Penfield clarified the epileptic focus in a patient with partial epilepsy using EEG. From 1950s, scalp EEG has been widely used in clinical field of epilepsy. Intracranial EEG was also used for presurgical evaluations.
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