Dresden 2009 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 27: Poster II

DY 27.18: Poster

Donnerstag, 26. März 2009, 16:00–18:00, P1B

Network communications: Applications to epileptic seizures — •Cornelia Petrovic and Rudolf Friedrich — Institut für Theoretische Physik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str.9, D-48149 Münster, Deutschland

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological diseases, one percent of the world's population suffering from it. It is characterized by the sudden onset of recurrent seizures due to a collective, "hypersynchronous" activity of extended populations of neurons. Since up to now only about two thirds of the patients respond to medication, understanding of the dynamic mechanisms which drive the epileptic seizures is of great interest. It appears to be that the understanding of seizure dynamics can be decisively improved by considering epileptic seizures as network phenomena.