Anna Mira Loesch-Biffar

Anna Mira Loesch-Biffar
Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich | LMU · Faculty of Medicine

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Introduction
Anna Mira Loesch-Biffar currently works at the Department of Neurology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. Her research focuses on epilepsy, especially seizure semiology and movement quantification.
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Seizure semiology is a well-established method to classify epileptic seizure types, but requires a significant amount of resources as long-term Video-EEG monitoring needs to be visually analyzed. Therefore, computer vision based diagnosis support tools are a promising approach. In this article, we utilize infrared (IR) and depth (3D) videos to show...
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Epilepsy affects approximately 1% of the world’s population. Semiology of epileptic seizures contain major clinical signs to classify epilepsy syndromes currently evaluated by epileptologists by simple visual inspection of video. There is a necessity to create automatic and semiautomatic methods for seizure detection and classification to better su...
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We describe the first case of a patient with brain abscesses caused by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia as a complication after motor cortex stimulator implantation. Brain abscesses pose a challenge in diagnosis and treatment, because microbiological diagnosis is not always achieved, antibiotic drugs may not penetrate well into the CNS and some bacteri...
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Objective: To investigate the occurrence of ictal and postictal aphasia in different focal epilepsy syndromes. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the video-electroencephalographic monitoring data of 1,118 patients with focal epilepsy for seizure-associated aphasia (SAA). Statistical analysis included chi-square analysis and Fisher's exact test...
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Aims Semiological analysis of epileptic seizures is performed to categorize resection candidates and provides valuable information about lateralization and localization of the epileptogenic zone. Seizure related movements of inpatients are evaluated based on video-EEG recordings, but can be hidden during seizures through e.g. blanket occlusion, sta...
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Many neurological diseases, such as Parkinson's disease and epilepsy, can significantly impair the motor function of the patients, often leading to a dramatic loss of their quality of life. Human motion analysis is regarded as fundamental towards an early diagnosis and enhanced follow-up in this type of diseases. In this contribution, we present Ne...
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Epileptic seizures constitute a serious neurological condition for patients and, if untreated, considerably decrease their quality of life. Early and correct diagnosis by semiological seizure analysis provides the main approach to treat and improve the patients’ condition. To obtain reliable and quantifiable information, medical professionals perfo...
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Objective: The study aimed to assess the relevance of interictal temporal glucose hypometabolism in patients with extratemporal epilepsy (ETE) by analyzing its association with a seizure semiology suggestive for temporal seizure involvement and the presence of temporal interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs). Methods: We retrospectively review...
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Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder which affects 0.5-1% of the world population. Its diagnosis relies both on Electroencephalogram (EEG) findings and characteristic seizure-induced body movements--called seizure semiology. Thus, synchronous EEG and (2D)video recording systems (known as Video-EEG) are the most accurate tools for epilepsy dia...
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Purpose: The objective was to investigate whether rhythmic midline theta (RMT) is more common in mesial frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) than in other FLEs. Methods: We reviewed our data base and included 19 patients with medically refractory FLE who underwent invasive evaluation for epilepsy surgery in the study. In all patients noninvasive EEG-video r...
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Background: Epileptic seizures are often accompanied by strong patient motion that follows specific patterns. This pattern can be captured by a video-based system that will raise an alarm upon identification of an epileptic seizure, which is valuable for both inpatient as well as home monitoring scenarios. Objective: The aim of this work is to dete...
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Zusammenfassung Die Analyse des Anfallsgeschehens hilft bei der Entscheidung, ob es sich um epileptische Anfälle handelt, welches Epilepsie-Syndrom vorliegt und ob eine epilepsiechirurgische Behandlung in Frage kommt. Um möglichst viel Information aus dem Anfallsgeschehen zu erlangen, erfolgt die Testung des Patienten im Anfall in stereotyper Weise...
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This study evaluated the relation of head and eye movements during ictal ipsilateral and contralateral head turning in patients with focal epilepsies with regard to lateralization of the epileptogenic zone. We reviewed our database and identified patients with ictal head turning ipsilateral and contralateral to the seizure onset as defined by ictal...
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Laterality in temporal lobe epilepsy is usually defined by EEG and imaging results. We investigated whether the analysis of seizure semiology including lateralizing seizure phenomena identifies bilateral independent temporal lobe seizure onset. We investigated the seizure semiology in 17 patients in whom invasive EEG-video-monitoring documented bil...
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Kongressbeitrag/Abstract Background and Aims: Medical refractory epilepsy occurs in up to 30 to 40% of epilepsy patients. In some of these patients, resective epilepsy surgery is curative. Localization of the epileptogenic zone is crucial in these patients. The aim of this case report is to illustrate the evaluation of the seizure onset zone in the...
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Convulsive syncopes may be particularly difficult to differentiate from epileptic seizures. Recurrent syncopes are caused by autonomic or non-autonomic failure. In this report, we present a 22-year-old woman who was misdiagnosed as epileptic and whose first symptoms during neurocardiogenic syncope occurred prior to asystole. The patient sensed her...

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