https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2007-00079-9
Multifractal detrented fluctuation analysis of tonic-clonic epileptic seizures
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Instituto de Desarrollo Humano, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Juan Maria Gutierrez 1150, Los Polvorines, Pcia. de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Escuela de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de General San Martín, M. Irigoyen 3100, San Martín, Pcia. de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Instituto de Cálculo, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pabellón II, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Scaling behaviour analysis of wavelet filtered EEG (without muscle activity) generalized tonic-clonic epileptic seizures are presented. In particular we show using the Multifractal Detrented Fluctuation Analysis (MF-DFA) that the epileptic recruitment rhythm observed in this kind of epileptic seizures present monofractal scaling behaviour, with lower values for the clonic than the tonic phases.
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