The 6th International Workshop on Seizure Prediction was
successfully
convened on
November 6-7, 2013 at the Bahia Resort Hotel in San Diego,
California. A Welcome/Networking Reception was held on the
evening of November 5th.
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for the Poster Session winners!
The Sixth International Workshop on Seizure
Prediction was a forum that brought together an international
interdisciplinary group involving epileptologists, engineers,
physicists, mathematicians, neurosurgeons and neuroscientists
focused on the development of treatments for epilepsy especially
based on closed loop prediction and interventions. The focus
was to
better understand the underlying physiological mechanisms as they
specifically relate to clinical recordings. At a fundamental level,
the goal of seizure prediction is to identify the underlying
mechanisms of seizure generation and to engineer systems that will
detect those dynamics and provide for intervention.
This meeting focused attention on basic questions
at the intersection of engineering, computational and epilepsy
neuroscience necessary for predicting and intervening with
seizures: how seizures arise in the neocortex, how to identify
sites of seizure origination, how seizures spread, and how they
terminate. We have identified these topics as key roadblocks to
further advances in treatment of pharmacoresistant epilepsy
syndromes. Through these questions we were able to focus attention on
bridging clinical and physiological metrics to arrive at new
approaches to understand epileptic seizure generation mechanisms
across all scales of brain from neuron to organism, and especially
close the loop between models of seizure generation and
physiological observations.
Event Schedule:
Tuesday, November 5th, 5:30 to 9:30 p.m - Welcome & networking
reception
Wednesday, November 6th, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. - Sessions
Wednesday, November 6th, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. - Poster reception
Thursday, November 7th, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. - Sessions
Thursday, November 7th, 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. - Dinner
Registration fee included:
Breakfast and lunch on Wednesday and Thursday
Light hors d'oeuvres on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings
Dinner cruise on the sternwheeler, William D.
Evans, on Thursday
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