Extracting Information from Neuronal Response of Epileptic Patients

Hilda Cerdeira

Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil

Data from epileptic patients provided by the Group of Epileptic Studies of the Hospital Sirio Libanés in SSão Paulo is analyzed using a thermodynamic interpretation of multifractal spectra due to Lee and Stanley(1), and E. Canessa(2). We further develop this method which allows us to identify the epileptic attack, thus permitting to follow the time series of the neuron potential in real time to foresee the attack.

1) J. Lee and H.E. Stanley, Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 2945 (1988).
2) E. Canessa, Eur. Phys. J. B 22, 123 (2001).

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