Mark Richardson

The Richardson Lab is a multidisciplinary team focused on human epilepsy, one of the commonest conditions affecting brain health. Epileptic seizures can be devastating, interrupting normal life, and leading to serious injury and even death. We seek to understand why an epileptic seizure starts now; why did the seizure emerge at this time, rather than 6 hours ago, or tomorrow? We tackle this question with two main approaches: (1) using data obtained from people with epilepsy and healthy controls, such as EEG, DTI, and fMRI, we construct dynamic models to investigate the conditions required for a seizure to emerge; and (2) using remote sensor technology, study the patterns of occurrence of seizures over very long periods of time in people with epilepsy, to create seizure forecasting systems.