Publications by authors named "Lisa M Caylor"
Mitigating bit flips or single event upsets in epilepsy neurostimulators.
Epilepsy Behav Case Rep
May 2016
Objectives: The objective of this study was to review software errors known as single event upsets (SEUs) or bit flips due to cosmic rays in epilepsy neurostimulators.
Materials And Methods: A case report of a single event upset or bit flip is discussed; device manufacturers and publicly available data were queried for both incidence and types of error as well as strategies of software error mitigation.
Results: Neurostimulators, like other implanted devices such as pacemakers, are prone to single event upsets.
Aspirin has shown promise as an anticonvulsant drug in animal models. Whether aspirin alters seizure frequency in humans remains unstudied. We retrospectively looked at adults with focal onset epilepsy who took aspirin daily while undergoing elective video-EEG monitoring and compared them with similar age- and sex-matched controls to see if seizure frequencies were different between those two populations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To determine whether the specific location of electrographic seizure onset in the temporal lobe is related to hippocampal pathology in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE).
Methods: Consecutive presurgical patients with scalp EEG-video evidence of TLE and no or mild hippocampal atrophy (HA) on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were prospectively studied by using depth and subdural strip electrode recordings to identify the site of the initial ictal discharge (IID). Thirty-four patients had either no or mild HA (HA- group).
Purpose: To investigate ammonia and glutamine levels in valproate (VPA)-related hyperammonemic encephalopathy (VHE).
Methods: We reviewed the medical records and EEG recordings of seven adults diagnosed with VHE.
Results: Venous ammonia levels were elevated in five (71%) of the seven patients.