Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 143, 117-123 (2007)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2007-00079-9

Multifractal detrented fluctuation analysis of tonic-clonic epileptic seizures

¹ Instituto de Desarrollo Humano, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Juan Maria Gutierrez 1150, Los Polvorines, Pcia. de Buenos Aires, Argentina
² Escuela de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de General San Martín, M. Irigoyen 3100, San Martín, Pcia. de Buenos Aires, Argentina
³ Instituto de Cálculo, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pabellón II, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Abstract

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.