Stopping Epileptic Seizures with Fewer False Alarms
From: Medical Design Briefs - 07/2012 - page 20

Epilepsy affects 50 million people worldwide, but in a third of these cases,
medication cannot keep seizures from occurring. One solution is to shoot a
short pulse of electricity to the brain to stamp out the seizure just as it
begins to erupt. But brain implants designed to do this have run into a
stubborn problem - too many false alarms, triggering unneeded treatment. To
solve this, a Johns Hopkins biomedical engineer has devised new seizure
detection software that, in early testing, significantly cuts the number of
unneeded pulses of current an epilepsy patient would receive.  

Read the entire article and view a video (2:29) at:
http://gazette.jhu.edu/2012/04/02/early-warning-system-for-seizures-could-lead-to-fewer-false-alarms/
http://releases.jhu.edu/2012/04/02/new-early-warning-system-for-seizures-could-lead-to-fewer-false-alarms/

Links:
Detect epilepsy seizures with fewer false alarms
http://www.futurity.org/health-medicine/detect-epilepsy-seizures-with-fewer-false-alarms/

Sridevi Sarma
http://sarmalab.icm.jhu.edu/sridevi_sarma