Long-term video-EEG monitoring

Long-term video-EEG monitoring is a diagnostictechnique used in certain patients with epilepsyor seizures. It involves the inpatient hospitalization of the patient for a period of time, typically days to weeks, during which they are continuously monitored and recorded with a videocamera and an electroencephalograph.

The recording is periodically monitored and analyzed by a neurologist, typically one trained in clinical neurophysiology; the neurologistdetermines when the monitoring is finished and issues the final report.

The purposes of long-term video-EEG monitoring include:

• discovering where in the braina given person's seizures begin
• distinguishing epileptic seizuresfrom psychogenic non-epileptic seizures
• evaluating a person who is a candidate for surgeryto treat epilepsy

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