Effect of physical exertion on seizure discharges in the EEG of epilepsy patients

W Horyd, J Gryziak, K Niedzielska… - … i neurochirurgia polska, 1981 - europepmc.org
The purpose of this study was establishing the effect of moderate exercise on EEG tracings
in young epileptics. The model of graded exercise was 15-minute work on a cycle
ergometer. The effect of the exercise on the pattern of simultaneously recorded EEG was
compared with the effect of 3-minute hyperventilation. After testing a control group of 20
young subjects without evidence of organic brain damage or with this damage causing no
epilepsy another group of 43 epileptics was studied. In none of these patients the intensity of …