Ei2: My Brain Map Challenge

The Epilepsy Innovation Institute will be leading an effort to better define an individual’s brain network. We want to create a Google Map for your brain that highlights your unique brain traffic pattern. With this map, we can better identify the routes your seizure could take, where the potential traffic jams might be, and how activity can get re-routed in the brain during those situations. Our purpose is to better define an individual’s brain network to enhance diagnosis and care.

We believe this will lay the groundwork to:

• Identify key brain regions unique to the individual that could be critical for seizure control
• Improve our abilities to pinpoint where a seizure originates, which may improve surgical options and outcomes
• Optimize neurostimulation therapies to the individual
• Better understand the biological profiles of epilepsy syndromes, which in turn could improve diagnosis and address why seizures occur