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by PaulHoule 702 days ago
Would the heart rate monitor be useful on its own?
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Hi, and thanks a lot for the help!

I know his heart rate goes up after a seizure because I can feel it with my hands when I try to calm him down. I've been reading more about the methods you mentioned in one of your comments below and it feels like a "holter" is something that could help. I can't find any commercial solution though but I'll talk to the vet about it.

I think heart rate spikes might not always correlate with seizures yet I think it can be the answer
EEG is more useful for seizure detection, but figuring out the electrodes is the tough part
Yeah, EEG is much harder than pulse detection, myography, GSR, ECG, etc. because the electrical fields from the brain are weak compared to electrical noise in the environment.

It is not that big of a hassle to wear a Holter monitor for continuous ECG monitoring for a month (w/ only 3 electrodes compared to the usual 12 lead ECG you would get in the clinic) but ambulatory EEG is a bigger deal

https://www.epilepsy.com/diagnosis/eeg/ambulatory

If the OP had an infinite budget the right way to do it would be to implant an ECG detector such as

See

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...

This device looks like it makes EEG a lot easier

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...

See also

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10563901/

In the lab we are able to see EEG waves when doing ABR in a non-electrically isolated environment pretty easily. I think that if the electrodes can be implanted under the skin next to the skull in a way that the animal wouldn't be trying to remove them all the time that some reasonable data can be gleaned and separated from intermittent environmental noise. We do use filters after all.