Epilepsy Research

Laboratory for Translational Epilepsy Research

EEG Stages During Experimental Status Epilepticus


The top EEG at each stage in the diagnostic images below is from a rat put into SE with kainic acid, the middle EEG is from a cobalt-homocysteine SE rat, and the bottom from a lithium-pilocarpine SE rat.

From Treiman et al., Epilepsy Res 5:49-60, 1990.

Stage I – Discrete

Stage II – Merging

Stage III – Continuous

Stage IV – Continuous with Flat Periods

Stage V – PEDs