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injury) is debatable, and it is unlikely that detection
and treatment of such paroxysmal discharges
improves clinical outcome. More research needs to
be done to better understand the pathophysiology of
neonatal seizures and the clinical significance of
seizures in patients with varying severity of brain
injury. This is a prerequisite for identifying the types
of seizures whose treatment with antiepileptic drugs
will improve clinical outcome. Refinement of
automated seizure detection methods can then be
done, targeted at this subgroup.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Research Council KUL: GOA Ambiorics, GOA
MaNet, CoE EF/05/006
Optimization in Engineering (OPTEC), IDO 05/010
EEG-fMRI, IDO 08/013
Autism, IOF-KP06/11 FunCopt, several
PhD/postdoc & fellow grants;
Flemish Government:
* FWO: PhD/postdoc grants, projects: FWO
G.0302.07 (SVM), G.0341.07 (Data fusion),
G.0427.10N (Integrated EEG-fMRI) research
communities (ICCoS, ANMMM);
* IWT: TBM070713-Accelero, TBM070706-
IOTA3, TBM080658-MRI (EEG-fMRI), PhD
Grants; Belgian Federal Science Policy Office:
IUAP P6/04 (DYSCO, `Dynamical systems, control
and optimization', 2007-2011);ESA PRODEX No
90348 (sleep homeostasis)
EU: FAST (FP6-MC-RTN-035801), Neuromath
(COST-BM0601).
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