Introduction: Magnetoencephalography (MEG) measures magnetic fields generated by neuronal currents. MEG is complementary to EEG. Considerable body of evidence indicates that ictal MEG recordings can provide useful information for pre-surgical evaluation of epilepsy patients alongside the more established long-term ictal video-EEG. Ictal MEG is recorded in some epilepsy surgery centers. However, a wider adoption of ictal MEG is hampered by lack of tools for synchronized video-MEG recording similar to those of video-EEG.
Methods: We have augmented MEG with a synchronized behavioral video-recording system. To estimate its additional value in ictal recordings, we retrospectively analyzed recordings of 10 epilepsy patients with and without the video.
Results: In six patients out of ten, adding the video substantially changed the resulting interpretations. In all six cases the effect was considerable: the number of detected seizures changed by more than 50%.
Conclusions: Synchronized video and audio recording capabilities are important for effective ictal MEG recordings of epilepsy patients.
Keywords: EEG; Epilepsy; MEG; Video.
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