The current development of the non-medicine treatment of Epilepsy involved EEG and the Expectation

Abstract

Since Jacquces Vidal first proposed the concept of the brain-computer interface in 1973, more and more scientific researches have been involved in the study of BCI, leading to the rapid development of BCI technology. Brain-computer interface refers to establishing a direct connection between the human brain and the external machine, which enables the brain to directly interact with the outside world based on the behaviours and movement of muscle tissue regulated by peripheral nerves or the communication of language and characters. BCI can achieve direct contact with external devices without relying on normal brain output pathways, which brings hope to patients with normal thinking but a severe neuromuscular injury that BCI can restore their ability to move or communicate with the environment and improve the quality of life of patients. There are mainly EEG, MEG, ECoG and FMRI methods to record neural signals of brain physiological activities. EEG is the bioelectrical activity of cortical neurons, which can reflect different brain states well and is widely used to apply brain-computer interface technology. At present, BCI technology is developing towards the real-time and practical direction. This paper summarizes the progress of EEG based brain-computer interface and an overview of epilepsy. These results shed light on further exploring the application potential of BCI in repairing major brain diseases.