Chaos in the Brain (image)

VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology)

Caption

This is an electroencephalogram (EEG) of one of the patients with a Dynamin 1 mutation seen at the Kiel epilepsy center. Usually, the EEG traces which capture differences in electrical potential due to activity of neurons have a relatively low voltage.

Credit

Image/Copyright: Department for Neuropediatrics, Kiel University, Germany

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