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Right hemispheric slowing on EEG
Wed, 03/18/2015 - 11:05Hello, My 2 year old autistic son had a seizure 3 days ago. He went unresponsive face down on the floor and I immediately called EMS. He was in "status" for about 5 hours. (received ativan at the first hospital and was a direct admit to a higher level hospital). The new hospital started him on Keppra and then started an EEG. The results showed right hemispheric slowing. There were also lot of spikes. MRI and CT were normal. I guess my question is what does right hemispheric slowing mean? They just said it was an abnormal EEG, but did not go into details.
WelcomeAs for slowing. I am
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2015-03-18 - 15:21
WelcomeAs for slowing. I am not sure, Spikes I can't say either. Since I don't read EEG.s.That said I can tell you some things. All a seizure is is "an electrical impulse going off wrong in the brain," The EEG is basically reading the electrical impulses comming from the brain. The right hemispher is where the slowing and spikes are comming from. Abnormalities if the neurologists were specialists in epilepsy would be seizure activity. Which does not mean he was in a seizure. It means that is the right hemispher is showing irregular impulses. (spikes , slowing). I hope this helps and he gets the asisstance he needsJoe Please come back and let us know how thigns are going... If you have other questions by all means ask them here... Oh and there is a 24/7 help lime that can be used