An explanation of the distribution of inter-seizure intervals

作者:Simkin M V*; Roychowdhury V P
来源:EPL, 2010, 91(5): 58005.
DOI:10.1209/0295-5075/91/58005

摘要

Recently Osorio et al. (Eur. J. Neurosci., 30 (2009) 1554) reported that the probability distribution of intervals between successive epileptic seizures follows a power law with exponent 1.5. We theoretically explain this finding by modeling the epileptic activity as a branching process, which we, in turn, approximate by a random walk. We confirm the theoretical conclusion by numerical simulation.

  • 出版日期2010-9