Mathematicians improve epilepsy treatment’s success

Mathematicians from the Johannes Kepler Univerity at Linz, Austria and the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany have found a way to compute the location of braincells responsible for epilepsy in five hours. Before this, it would take weeks or even months to perform this task increasing the chance of failure in a surgical operation.

Here are some references to this research:

• Ulrich Langer, research director for the initiative
• A parallel algebraic multigrid solver for finite element method based source localization in the human brain. Related article regarding finite element methods applied to neurology