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Epilepsy is a brain disorder in which clusters of nerve cells, or neurons, in the brain sometimes signal abnormally. Neurons normally generate electrochemical impulses that act on other neurons, glands, and muscles to produce human thoughts, feelings, and actions. In epilepsy, the normal pattern of neuronal activity becomes disturbed, causing strange sensations, emotions, and behavior, or sometimes convulsions , muscle spasms, and loss of consciousness. During a seizure, neurons may fire as many as 500 times a second, much faster than normal. In some people, this happens only occasionally; for others, it may happen up to hundreds of times a day. More than 2 million people in the United States -- about 1 in 100 -- have experienced an unprovoked seizure or been diagnosed with epilepsy. For about 80 percent of those diagnosed with epilepsy, seizures can be controlled with modern medicines and surgical techniques. However, about 25 to 30 percent of people with epilepsy will continue to experience seizures even with the best available treatment. Doctors call this situation intractable epilepsy. Having a seizure does not necessarily mean that a person has epilepsy. Only when a person has had two or more seizures is he or she considered to have epilepsy. the project includes making of a wristband which could alert the patient of an epilepsy attack, around 2-3 minutes before it actually occurs. this will be done by placing an alarm in the wristband which will ring as soon as it recieves a signal from a biochip which could be planted in patient's brain through a surgery, the chip must have a strong reciever to immediately notice abnormality in neuron signalling. then it should transmit this to a microcontroller chip placed in wristband and programmed in such a way that if it recieves a signal at one of its input ports, the it should ring the alarm, connected at one of its output ports. although, all i have written is very vague but i am sure this is possible, all i need is proper guidance.

  

Hello Dear My Brother is a patient of Epilipsy,after I operate him due to brain tumer since august 2006.my wife is also treated as a epiliptic patient.but now no fits.but my brother live with fits,when i read your article i wish to contect you. i am serving as an instrument technician in fauji fertilizer company.my passion is to build my own microcontroller project but always failed ineed your help without any profit if u consider me as your FRIEND aamir mairaj

hello sir, my email id is shivani_niec@yahoo.co.in and smilendawn@gmail.com. can u please send me ur id, i will contact u there. with regards, shivani. Quote by --shivani

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Hi, Im an engg student with a medical background. I really liked your project. can u please send me all the details at big_j@ymail.com

Thanks in advance.

  

hello ma'am

i am gowrima,a student in instrumentation technology.

i found ur project extremely interesting.

can u please give me the circuit design n procedure to be followed in conducting the project??

kj.gowrima@gmail.com 

  

hello,

i am an electronics student and my brother is a patient of epilepsy. i dont know how long ago this project of yours started but if you may please send me details (circuit diagram, other details) about this project. i would really like to help my brother. thanks.

nehpets_08@yahoo.com.ph 

dear friend, actually this is not a working project at all... its just a hypothetical idea..im not sure whether this thing is feasible at all... even my bro is suffering frm epilepsy n dats d reason y i thought of doing this project... but i need proper guidance to do it and since i kudnt get any such guidance, i hav dropped dis idea for d time being. regards, shivani :) Quote by --Shivani