11y May 24, 2025

Is the following abnormal? If so, what is its nature?

 There are two observations worth mentioning. Background rhythms (approximately 7.5 Hz frequencies) are well developed in the right central reg...

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11y, seizures May 22, 2025

The following pages are different montages of the same epochs, and the patient is awake and playing on the cell phone.

The waveform is coincident with the ECG, but the distribution of the waveform is...

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31y, seizures May 20, 2025

What would you call this fella? The patient is asleep 

 Figure 1:

 

Notice the change in "paper speed"; The above represented at 5 seconds per page

Refer to figure 1 above. While this looks li...

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53, likely TLE. Which of these waves is abnormal? May 20, 2025

Notice that there are slow eye movements at F8 and F7 In the first few seconds, the background rhythms slow after one second and rhythmic theta waves appear alternately over both temporal regions. O...

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11y, seizures, flaps hands and arms and talks during seizures May 19, 2025

Long-term monitoring demonstrated no inter-ictal abnormalities during wakefulness and sleep. Similarly, the EEG was normal during ssizures. A confident diagnosis of frontal lobe epilepsy was made, bas...

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31y, seizures May 17, 2025

Seizures consist of pins and needles in the right hand, a "pulling" feeling and videos show piano playing movements with the right hand, which she reports as being involuntary and with retained awaren...

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71y, known with epilepsy May 16, 2025

Is the following an example of a seizure, spiking in the parietal region, slow alpha variant, drowsiness or sleep? The first 2 pages represent 20 consecutive seconds. Subsequent epochs are identical t...

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31y, drug resistant epilepsy May 15, 2025

What is the nature of this sharply contoured waveform in the middle of the page? The patient is in stage II sleep (No eyeblinks, no EMG, presence of spindles and an electropositive vertex wave approxi...

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1y, Epileptic seizures May 14, 2025

Above: Awake, normal background rhythms for age (principally theta frequencies over the posterior head regions and beta frequencies that are best developed at CZ), oblique eye movement (first arrow)...

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8y, aggressive outbursts May 14, 2025

The above page, represented on the referential montage:

The above are frontal alpha frequencies, physiologically normal. Notice the gradual ascent and descent of the waveforms.

The patient is ...

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2y old, epilepsy May 13, 2025

What is the nature of the following sharp and slow waves?

These appear in the parasagittal derivations only. They resemble spike-and-wave. They are either electro-negative anteriorly or electroposi...

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65y, two episodes of amnesia eeg May 12, 2025

65y, two episodes of amnesia lasting 1.5 hours and about three hours, previous traumatic brain injury with amnesia for approximately 24 hours 
F7 is artifactual, but only partially so and the represent...

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