‘Silent seizures’ discovered in patients with Alzheimer’s disease
‘Silent seizures’ discovered in patients with Alzheimer’s disease: Deep in the brains of two patients with Alzheimer’s disease, the main memory structure, the hippocampus, displays episodic seizure-like electrical activity. These non-convulsive hippocampal seizures are the first signs of ‘silent’ brain electrical network dysfunction described in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.