Waveform Window #19 Seize The Day

Abstract

A 65-year-old woman was functioning at a high level until six weeks before the following EEG was performed (Figure 1 and Figure 2). At that time, she began to have subtle problems with her routine activities of cooking and cleaning. This quickly progressed to needing increasing help with all daily activities . She also began to have trouble walking. About two weeks prior to testing she stopped taking the stairs, and a week prior she could only walk with maximal assistance. Her husband began to note startle-like jerks when sleeping, of increasing frequency over the past month. Over the week prior to EEG, the patient developed urinary incontinence. An initial EEG at another medical center was reported to show seizures.