Skip to main content
  • Poster presentation
  • Open access
  • Published:

A phase-locked loop epilepsy network emulator for localizing, forecasting, and controlling ictal activity

Seizure detection is rapidly improving thanks to novel computational approaches [1] and public databases of electrocorticography (ECoG) data [2]. But these approaches rarely model the high-frequency oscillations that underlie seizure pathology [3]. In the current work, we employ a phase-locked loop (PLL) neural network [4] to emulate a mesoscale circuit undergoing high-frequency oscillation. We phase-lock the nodes of the emulator to raw voltages recorded from chronically implanted ECoG electrodes in a canine model of epilepsy, and demonstrate that the emulator experiences uncontrolled phase oscillation far in advance of either behaviorally observed seizure activity or fluctuations in ECoG voltages. Using distance weighting to train the epilepsy network emulator, we localize the ECoG electrodes responsible for destabilization, and present measures sensitive to these phase disruptions to establish a forecasting period for ictal activity. We discuss how phase oscillations from real-time epilepsy network emulation could serve as a closed-loop feedback control signal to interrupt ictal activity.

References

  1. Howbert JJ, Patterson EE, Stead SM, Brinkmann B, Vasoli V, Crepeau D, et al: Forecasting seizures in dogs with naturally occurring epilepsy. PLoS One. 2014, 9 (1): e81920-

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  2. Davis K, Sturges BK, Vite CH, Ruedebusch V, Worrell G, Gardner G, et al: A novel implanted device to wirelessly record and analyze continuous intracranial canine EEG. Epilepsy Research. 2011, 96 (1-2): 116-122.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  3. Kramer MA, Cash SS: Epilepsy as a Disorder of Cortical Network Organization. Neuroscientist. 2012, 18 (4): 360-372.

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  4. Hoppensteadt FC, Izhikevich EM: Pattern recognition via synchronization in phase-locked loop neural networks. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. 2000, 11 (3): 734-738.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Patrick D Watson.

Rights and permissions

This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Watson, P.D., Horecka, K., Ratnam, R. et al. A phase-locked loop epilepsy network emulator for localizing, forecasting, and controlling ictal activity. BMC Neurosci 16 (Suppl 1), P38 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-16-S1-P38

Download citation

  • Published:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-16-S1-P38

Keywords