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Article: Research into seizure prediction devices advances: no adverse events have been reported in the two ongoing phase III implanted device studies.(Neuropsychiatric Medicine)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
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- February 1, 2007
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CHICAGO -- Ongoing clinical trials for two implanted devices designed to interrupt or predict seizures herald an area of clinical research that has quickly gained ground during the last 5 years, Dr. Brian Litt said at the annual meeting of the American Neurological Association.
Research into seizure prediction, most of which has occurred in the past 15 years, has been "very controversial," mostly because of people getting too excited about findings very early on, said Dr. Litt of the departments of neurology and bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Early studies were plagued by overreliance on abstract functions rather than on ...