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Help understanding EEG report?
Fri, 08/05/2016 - 15:02I just got my 5 year old son's 94 hour EEG results, and I'm super confused. Is anyone able to help be understand the terms?
He was diagnosed with epilepsy just after his second birthday. The purpose of this EEG was to try and find out where the seizures were starting in his brain. during the 94 hours he didn't have any seizures that I could see. The report says he had "rare epileptiform discharges in the right central/parietal region and left hemisphere during seep." It also says "no electrographic seizures are seen". Does anyone know what this means?
WelcomeYou are on the site
Submitted by just_joe on Fri, 2016-08-05 - 19:00
WelcomeYou are on the site that can give you a lot of information.Let your Mouse hoover over the learn section. It brings up different things go down and hover over diagnosis and you will see EEG. Click there and you will find out a lot The EEG is a test done to find out where the seizures start ie, where in the brain electrical discharges are not normal. I had been having seizures and I had 20-25 different EEG's and they all came back normal (like everybody elses) The last test being done in a battery of tests was another EEG in which I fell asleep in. In that EEG they found abnormalities (spikes, waves, seizure activity aka epilrptiform dischagerges) in the lower left lobes of my brain.So in your son's case the activity seen is coming from the right central-partietal region and left hemisphere of his brain. "no electrographic seizures are seen" Defining electrographic seizure and it would be "sub·clin·i·cal sei·zurea seizure detected by EEG, which has no clinical correlate, that is, an EEG seizure alone.The way I put it in an Essay years ago was a Seizure is an electrical impulse hitting wrong in the brain. Causing a chain reaction. That wrong hit is the start. The seizure itself is the chain reaction caused by that wrong hit.Abnormalities are electrical activities that are not normal (electrical impulses hitting wrong)