Efficacy of Activation Procedures to Illustrate Eeg Changes in Epilepsy

Abstract

BACKGROUND EEG or Electroencephalogram, which is the most important diagnostic procedure to evaluate Epilepsy patients, may sometimes fall short of accurate sensitivity and may require few Activation Procedures such as 'Hyperventilation' and 'Sleep' to bring out the active changes of an Epileptic brain. The present study was done with the aim of knowing the efficacy of such Activation Procedures like 'Hyperventilation' and 'Sleep' in illustrating the EEG wave pattern changes of an Epileptic brain during the interictal period.