Dispositivo para Epilepsia: Colabore!

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Este foi o resultado de um trabalho ciêntifico desenvolvido durante 5 anos pela Professora Hilda Cerdeira. O método foi sendo aperfeiçoado até chegar no estágio em que detecta surtos com até 35 minutos de antecedência. Ele foi testado em sinais de diversos pacientes epilépticos. 

A professora se especializou em Física na área de Dinâmica Não Linear/Caos. É Graduada em Física pela Universidade de Buenos Aires, PhD por Brown University, pós-Doc por Max Planck Institut. Professora aposentada pela UNICAMP, pesquisadora aposentada pela UNESCO e atual Professora do IFT, UNESP.

Agora que conhece mais sobre nosso trabalho, contribua para transformar a vida de mihões de epilépticos!

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INNOVATING, OUR PROJECT IS GOING TO IMPROVE THE LIFE OF PEOPLE WITH EPILEPSY

Epilepsy is the most common of serious brain diseases reaching over 80 million people around the world, from which 80% are in developing countries. Although there are medications and treatments at hand, none of them are able to predict an oncoming seizure.

With your donation, we can transform this reality! Our device can improve the quality of life of people with epilepsy, opening doors for them to do whatever they desire without serious consequences and being able to count on the security of a faster medical response BEFORE a seizure happens. In addition to alerting the user, the device sends an SOS message to an application that can be installed in the smartphone of the user’s medical proxy.

Do you want to know how we are about to change the life of millions of people? We can explain…

1)You receive a kit with a customizable watch, disposable adhesive sensors that last 30 days (electrodes)  and an instructions manual which also explains where to download the app.

2) the adhesives are placed on the user’s head. They are small and discrete. The sensors communicate with the watch, which monitors the electrical signals from the brain all the time.

3) Our software, installed in the watch, analyses this data and detects an oncoming seizure (up to 30 minutes in advance).

4) The clock alerts the user about the seizure (through an alarm, a text message or by vibrating) and sends a message to the people that were registered by the user.

5) The user’s medical proxies may go pick them up or take them to the doctor’s, depending on the intensity of the seizure. The patient may stop whatever they are doing, even something that would be dangerous during a seizure such as swimming or driving.

6)The development of this project will encourage the pharmaceutical industry to develop medication that can be ingested right before a seizure to prevent it.

If patients could learn that a seizure was coming beforehand, they could prepare themselves to diminish its effects. Our device, a wearable-wristband, offers just that, thus helping epileptic carriers around the world to be able to perform activities that they currently cannot without risking theirs or other people’s lives.

Let’s make the treatment of epilepsy proactive so people with epilepsy can live a full life!

We thank you for all your donations! They will contribute to the development of a device that will help many have a better life. You are contributing for us to be able to take this device from the phase of corroborated methodology to a prototype that can be scientifically established as useful to people with epilepsy and to its manufacturing.

As a token of our gratitude we have prepared special rewards. Choose yours below and click next to it.

THIS IS OUR WAY OF SAYING: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR DONATING

• R$ 10 (~$4.00) Digital thank you note
• R$ 50,00 (~$20.00) Mug with the company’s logo
• R$ 75,00 (~$30.00) Be a part of the product’s test group (only people with epilepsy are eligible)
• R$ 100 (~$44.00) Mug + Prevention guide
• SUPER-LIMITED REWARD R$999 (~$399.00) Get ahead! A Full Kit with 1 bracelet + 5 adhesives with a chip
• R$ 1499 (~$599.00) Limited reward! Second Chance! A Full Kit with 1 bracelet + 5 adhesives with a chip
• R$ 1999 (~$799.00) Market Value! A Full Kit with 1 bracelet + 5 adhesives with a chip

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YOU CAN MAKE A LOT OF LIVES BETTER

This is a completely innovating project with the objective of improving the quality of life of patients with epilepsy. We are proposing the development of a device for the anticipated detection of an incoming epileptic seizure through noninvasive methods for the patient. All of the equipment in use today, and those being currently developed, alert of an already ongoing seizure.

Professor Hilda Cerdeira developed the method and the corresponding algorithm which has been tested on information collected from electroencephalograms from epileptic patients. Some with seizures and some without. The method has been efficient both for positive and negative cases.

The device works through disposable sensors placed on the user’s head, with disposable adhesive chips or even sensors in the inner part of the wearable bracelet of the main illustration.

These sensors send a constant signal to the device (bracelet), which analyzes if a seizure is about to happen with the developed method. If that is the case, it sends an alert to the user and an SOS message to the application that is installed in the user’s medical proxy’s smartphone.

Our method consists in the processing of data, based on non-linear dynamic systems that enable the detection of the seizure up to 35 minutes before the seizure.

The project predicts the development of two devices with different markets: one for the final user and another more robust one for hospitals (hospitalized patients).

The amount raised will be used to create a prototype, assemble a team of scientists (Physicists) and software and hardware engineers and enable the future manufacturing of the devices.

We are offering the possibility of a more dignified life for those with epilepsy. Participate!

Learn more about those heading the project

This was the result of a scientific project being developed for the last 5 years by Professor Hilda Cerdeira. The method has been improved until it reached the stage in which the detection occurs up to 35 minutes before the seizure. It was tested with signals from several epileptic patients.

The professor is specialized in Physics in the Non-Linear Dynamics/Chaos area. Has a degree in Physics from the University of Buenos Aires, a PhD from Brown University, a post-Doc from the Max Planck Institut. She is a retired professor from UNICAMP, a retired researcher from ICTP/UNESCO and is currently a Voluntary Professor at IFT, UNESP.

Now, learn more about our work and donate to transform the lives of millions of people with epilepsy!