Mathematical structures for epilepsy: High-frequency oscillation and interictal epileptic slow (red slow).

In the present study, we attempted to characterize two characteristic features within the dynamic behavior of wideband electrocorticography data, which were recorded as the brain waves of epilepsy, comprising high-frequency oscillations (HFOs) and interictal epileptic slow (red slow). The results of power spectrum and nonlinear time series analysis indicate that, on one hand, HFOs at epileptic focus are characterized by one-dimensional dynamical systems in ictal onset time segments at an epileptic focus for two patients' datasets; on the other hand, an interictal epileptic slow is characterized by the residue of power spectrum. The results suggest that the degree of freedom of the brain dynamics during epileptic seizure with HFO degenerates to low-dimensional dynamics; hence, the interictal epileptic slow as the precursors of the seizure onset can be detected simply from interictal brain wave data for the dataset of one patient. Therefore, our results are essential to understand the brain dynamics in epilepsy.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest Masao Matsuhashi and Akio Ikeda: Department of Epilepsy, Movement Disorders and Physiology, Kyoto University is the Industry-Academia Collaboration Courses, supported by Eisai Co., Ltd., Nihon Kohden Corporation, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and UCB Japan Co. Ltd.
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