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*Epilepsy - Advances in Diagnosis and Therapy*

brains' neurons occurs, which is a stress for central neural system, it is possible that

In reproduction of tapping, there are different brain structures concerned, such as the cerebellum. Taking into account the fact that the cerebellum is an antiepileptic device, its activation during tapping can have a therapeutic effect on epileptic patients. Tempo-rhythm studies focused on epileptic patients could be used for the development of new rehabilitative methods. As a fundamental support of this theory, exploration of dominants involving the opportunity to work out a new dominant for this group of patients with tapping exercises makes these studies relevant. Consequently, research on individual rhythm changes in patients with symptomatic post-surgery epilepsy and comparison of these changes with healthy persons' individual rhythm indicators can help to create a new dominant in the absence of pathological focus and reset remaining epileptic system links, imposing the mode of operation closest to the physiological one and activate antiepileptic system. There is also a concept which states that "seizures lead to seizures." First proposed by doctor William Gowers (1881) and reflecting the concept of epilepsy as

the epileptic system occurrence can change patients' individual rhythm.

a progressing disease [65], this concept remains relevant.

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Natalia Shnayder1 , Ekaterina Narodova<sup>2</sup> \*, Valeriya Narodova<sup>2</sup> , Andrey Narodov2 and Evgeniy Erakhtin3

1 V.M. Bekhterev National Medical Research Center of Psychiatry and Neurology, St Petersburg, Russian Federation

2 Professor V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky Krasnoyarsk State Medical University, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation

3 N.S. Karpovich Krasnoyarsk Interdistrict Clinical Hospital of Emergency Care, Russian Federation

\*Address all correspondence to: katya\_n2001@mail.ru

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