Feedback Stimulation to Stop Seizure Activity
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Feedback Stimulation to Feedback Stimulation to Stop Seizure ActivityStop Seizure Activity
Team MembersTeam MembersIbrahim Khansa
ShikhaKaty Reed
Steven Skroch
AdvisorAdvisorDr. Willis Tompkins
ClientClientDr. Paul Rutecki
- Neurology
Background: EpilepsyBackground: EpilepsyA recurring neurological disorder characterized by random firing of nerve cells in the brain which cause a temporary shutdown of normal brain function
•Symptoms:
•Small jerks, temporary loss of awareness, violent grand mal events
•Can occur in any part of the brain
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/disease/Epilepsy.html
Epilepsy TreatmentEpilepsy Treatment•Current treatment: Anti-seizure/Anticonvulsant medications
•Not effective for 30% of patients
•Disruptive Side effects
•Early electrical stimulation of the brain may abort seizures
Client’s ResearchClient’s Research
•Study the possibility of aborting spontaneous seizures in slices of rat hippocampus, by electrical stimulation
•Problems
•Slices are stimulated at fixed time intervals, NOT in response to seizures
•Solution:
•Automate stimulation
•Monitor neuron activity before onset in order to predict seizure
Stimulate the slices in response to the seizure
http://www.brainconnection.com/topics/?main=gal/hippocampus-2
Location of the hippocampus in the human brain
Problem StatementProblem Statement
A reliable epileptic seizure prediction/detection algorithm is needed. When a seizure is predicted or detected, the algorithm needs to generate an electrical stimulus, analogous to a cardiac defibrillation current.
Device AbilitiesDevice Abilities•Detect signs of an imminent seizure, or alternatively, detect the seizure in progress.•Deliver an adequate stimulus as soon as seizure onset is detected•Feedback: Monitor the effects of the stimulus, and stimulate again if needed•Compatibility with existing hardware and software to be interfaced with hippocampus slices in a Petri dish.
Design OverviewDesign Overview
•Four major components of the feedback stimulation algorithm
•Seizure prediction
•Seizure detection
•Stimulation
•Feedback loop and training set
•Three major design alternatives
Design OverviewDesign Overview
•Four major components of the feedback stimulation algorithm
•Seizure prediction
•Seizure detection
•Stimulation
•Feedback loop and training set
•Three major design alternatives
Prediction ModalitiesPrediction Modalities
•Possibility of seizure prediction still in research phase
•May be possible to detect changes up to 10 minutes before seizure onset
•No definite changes in EEG frequency or amplitude
Prediction ModalitiesPrediction Modalities•Navarro et al: Analysis of Similarity method
Drop in the index of similarity just before the seizure
Design OverviewDesign Overview
•Four major components of the feedback stimulation algorithm
•Seizure prediction
•Seizure detection
•Stimulation
•Feedback loop and training set
•Three major design alternatives
Detection ModalitiesDetection Modalities
•Changes in EEG signal at seizure onset:
•Amplitude Increase•Slight•May give a lot of false positives
•Frequency Increase
•Line length Increase•Encompasses both amplitude and frequency increase
Data AcquiredData Acquired
•Seizures induced in slices of rat hippocampus
•Data acquired using a glass electrode and a LabVIEW detection module
•Real-time frequency spectrum computed
EEG Frequency Spectrum
Normal (Interictal)
Just before a seizure (Preictal)
Seizure (Ictal)
Design OverviewDesign Overview
•Four major components of the feedback stimulation algorithm
•Seizure prediction
•Seizure detection
•Stimulation
•Feedback loop and training set
•Three major design alternatives
Brain StimulationBrain Stimulation
• A “reset” mechanism• All neurons in a region
stimulated at once All neurons in refractory period No further random firing possible
No further firing possible during the refractory period
StimulationStimulation•Square pulses:
•Frequency 100-150 Hz
•Pulse duration 20-100 μs
Source: Responsive Cortical Neurostimulation (Axon)
•Stimulation has to be administered early (before the seizure, or just after onset)
Design OverviewDesign Overview
•Four major components of the feedback stimulation algorithm
•Seizure prediction
•Seizure detection
•Stimulation
•Feedback loop and training set
•Three major design alternatives
Feedback LoopFeedback Loop
Predict/Detect Seizure
Give 4-6 pulses
Wait 1-2 seconds
Seizure stopped? No
Yes
Done
Export data to training set
Receiver Operating Receiver Operating CharacteristicCharacteristic
ROC
1-Specificity (Rate of False Positives)
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Before training set
After training set
Design OverviewDesign Overview
•Four major components of the feedback stimulation algorithm
•Seizure prediction
•Seizure detection
•Stimulation
•Feedback loop and training set
•Three major design alternatives
Design Alternative 1Design Alternative 1Detection electrode
Digidata 1322A (Client’s existing DAQ)
Acquire and analyze data with C++Stimulation
electrodeSeizure detection triggers signal generator
•Advantages
•Inexpensive
•Fast, allows low-level control
•Limitations
•May be cumbersome
Design Alternative 2Design Alternative 2Detection electrode
Digidata 1322A (Client’s existing DAQ)
Input data into MATLAB in real-time and analyze
If seizure detected, send a trigger
Stimulation electrode
Signal generator outputs square pulses
555 timer
•Advantages
•Inexpensive
•Matlab allows extensive signal analysis
•Limitations
•Digidata cannot be interfaced directly with Matlab
Design Alternative 3Design Alternative 3•Acquire and stimulate using LabVIEW
•Client need not purchase LabVIEW
•Advantages:
•Simple, versatile and user-friendly
•Can easily build learning set when seizure not detected
•Limitations:
•Cannot use clients’s DAQ
Future WorkFuture Work•Build a complete feedback loop
•Implement the Analysis of Similarity prediction algorithm
•Choose the optimal DAQ
•Test the completed algorithm on live hippocampus slices
ReferencesReferencesGrill W. (2001). Extracellular excitation of central neurons: implications for the mechanisms of deep brain stimulation. Thalamus and Related Systems, (1), pp.269-77.
Navarro V. (2002). Seizure anticipation in human neocortical partial epilepsy. Brain, (125), pp.640-55.
Jerger K. (2001). Early seizure detection. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, 18(3), pp.259-68.
Le Van Quyen M. (2001). Anticipation of epileptic seizures from standard EEG recordings. Lancet, (357), pp.183-88.
Staley K. (2004). Mechanisms of fast ripples in the hippocampus. The Journal of Neuroscience, 24(40), pp.8896-8906.
http://www.epilepsynse.org.uk/pages/info/leaflets/drug.cfm#contraception
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