UH Engineer Locates Brain’s Seizure Onset Zone in Record Time Discovery Breakthrough for Epilepsy Patients

UH Engineer Locates Brain’s Seizure Onset Zone in Record Time Discovery Breakthrough for Epilepsy Patients

HOUSTON, Feb. 5, 2018 – A University of Houston biomedical engineer is reporting a dramatic decrease in the time it takes to detect the seizure onset zone (SOZ), the actual part of the brain that causes seizures, in patients with epilepsy. Nearly 30 percent of epilepsy patients are resistant to drug therapy, so they have the option of surgery to remove their seizure onset zones. Most of them opt in, according to assistant professor Nuri […]