spike-and-wave discharges

spike-and-wave discharges

a pattern of brain waves on an electroencephalogram (see electroencephalography) that is characteristic of absence seizures. It consists of a sharp spike followed by a low-amplitude delta wave and occurs at a frequency of three per second.

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