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What if we could just turn off that brain for the brief amount of time until the seizure dies away, and cause the brain to be restored to its initial state, like a dynamical system that's being coaxed down into a stable state?
This animation tries to explain this concept where we made these cells sensitive to being turned off with light, and we beam light in, and just for the time it takes to shut down a seizure, we're hoping to be able to turn it off.
And when he was seven, he had his first grand mal seizure at Disneyland.
So people would have a real grand mal seizure.
CA: You're sitting there with the American flag, and the American Constitution guarantees freedom from unreasonable search and seizure.
Voice: OK, he's having a seizure.
And this kind of reaction ended up being the kind of reaction we saw over and over and over: people down on the ground trying to comfort the seizure victim, trying to whisper something into his ear or in some way help, even though they couldn't.
In extreme cases, electroconvulsive therapy, which is like a controlled seizure in the patient's brain, is also very helpful.
It's got to be robust to attack, including closing the main index, injecting malicious files, armed seizure of some major nodes.
Other frequently used medications include antipsychotics, which alter the effects of dopamine, and electroconvulsive therapy, which works like a carefully controlled seizure in the brain, is sometimes used as an emergency treatment.
And then, when it was sure everybody was looking at us, in its final show and official introduction, I had my first full-blown seizure, which was the beginning of what has been a 15-year-long affair.
Seizures are the trademark characteristic for most types of epilepsy, and every first-ever seizure needs to be assessed by a doctor to determine if one has epilepsy or if it's a symptom of something else.
I was lucky enough to get a job, but I was fired from that job when I had a seizure in the workplace.
Two or three days after a seizure, my head and my hand would still be twitching.
Already, using one of these devices, an epileptic can know they're going to have an epileptic seizure before it happens.
In its early years, doctors administered a strong electrical current to the brain, causing a whole-body seizure during which patients might bite their tongues or even break bones.
This causes huge numbers of neurons to fire in unison: a brief, controlled seizure.
When you have a seizure, it's a bit of unusual electrical activity, and it can be focal.
However, if you have a seizure where that little brush fire spreads like a forest fire over the brain, then it generalizes, and that generalized seizure takes your consciousness away and causes you to convulse.
It's having somebody there at the time that you have a seizure.
He had the exact date and time, and he says, "That was right before he had a grand mal seizure."
We've had people whose hair stands on end on one arm 20 minutes before a seizure."
So we realized that we needed to get this out, and with the PhD work of Ming-Zher Poh and later great improvements by Empatica, this has made progress and the seizure detection is much more accurate.
And when it happens, it doesn't happen during the seizure, and it doesn't usually happen immediately afterwards, but immediately afterwards, when the person just seems very still and quiet, they may go into another phase, where the breathing stops, and then after the breathing stops, later the heart stops.
So we had started with work on stress, which had enabled us to build lots of sensors that were gathering high quality enough data that we could leave the lab and start to get this in the wild; accidentally found a whopper of a response with the seizure, neurological activation that can cause a much bigger response than traditional stressors; lots of partnership with hospitals and an epilepsy monitoring unit, especially Children's Hospital Boston and the Brigham; and machine learning and AI on top of this to take and collect lots more data in service of trying to understand these events and if we could prevent SUDEP.
This is now commercialized by Empatica, a start-up that I had the privilege to cofound, and the team there has done an amazing job improving the technology to make a very beautiful sensor that not only tells time and does steps and sleep and all that good stuff, but this is running real-time AI and machine learning to detect generalized tonic-clonic seizures and send an alert for help if I were to have a seizure and lose consciousness.
That is five or six women every hour having a blood clot, a seizure, a stroke, receiving a blood transfusion, having end-organ damage such as kidney failure, or some other tragic event.
They hooked her up to multiple different monitors and paid special attention to her blood pressure, the fetal heart rate tracing and gave her IV medication to prevent a seizure.
He had an oxygen toxicity seizure and he drowned.
And this shows what an electroencephalogram is, and on the left is the signal of a spontaneous seizure of one of the patients.
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