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Long-term electroencephalogram monitoring is often used to help distinguish epileptic from dissociative (non-epileptic) seizures. Home video telemetry now offers many of the benefits in diagnosis previously available only with inpatient video telemetry, which is usually regarded as the ‘gold standard’. Here, we describe recent developments in home video telemetry and how we undertake this procedure in our unit.
- epilepsy
- EEG
- neurophysiology
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Collaborators A Kaundal; V Hegde; H Khan; H Allroggen.
Contributors AK wrote, edited and revised the manuscript for intellectual content. VH and HK critiqued and reviewed the article. HA edited and reviewed the article.
Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Competing interests None declared.
Provenance and peer review Commissioned. Externally peer reviewed by Bawani Anand, Cardiff, UK and Peter Bergin, Auckland, New Zealand.
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