Current practice of clinical electroencephalography

✍ Scribed by Dr. John S. Ebersole MD, Timothy A. Pedley MD

• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 986
• Series: LWW medical book collection
• Edition: 3rd ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The standard-setting clinical electroencephalography textbook has been rewritten for the next decade of EEG technicians and resident and practicing neurologists. This Third Edition reflects the transition of the field to an all-digital environment, with fundamental changes in data recording, analysis, and interpretation.

Drs. Ebersole and Pedley are outstanding educators with extensive experience in editing two of the leading journals--Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsia, respectively. In this volume, Ebersole and Pedley cover the full range of applications of EEG and evoked potentials in contemporary clinical practice. The book explains the most advanced instrumentation and techniques and their use in evaluating various disorders. More than 600 illustrations depict both normal and abnormal findings.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: The cellular basis of EEG activity --
Cortical generators and EEG voltage fields --
Engineering principles --
Electrical fields and recording techniques --
Orderly approach to visual analysis: elements of the normal EEG and their characteristics in children and adults --
Neonatal electroencephalography --
Benign electroencephalographic variants and patterns of uncertain clinical significance --
Activation methods --
Artifacts --
An orderly approach to the abnormal electroencephalogram --
Focal electroencephalographic abnormalities --
Metabolic, infectious, and hereditary encephalopathies --
Organic brain syndromes and dementias --
Electrophysiological evaluation of coma, other states of diminished responsiveness, and brain death --
Drug effects and toxic encephalopathies --
Progressive pediatric neurological syndromes --
Seizures and epilepsy --
Video-electroencephalographic monitoring --
Ambulatory EEG monitoring --
Intracranial electroencephalography --
Intraoperative electrocorticography --
Automatic detection and analysis of seizures and spikes --
EEG voltage topography and dipole source modeling of epileptiform potentials --
Quantitative electroencephalography --
Continuous EEG monitoring in the intensives care unit --
Sleep disorders: laboratory evaluation --
Visual evoked potentials --
Brainstem auditory evoked potentials --
Somatosensory evoked potentials --
Long-latency event-related potentials --
Intraoperative monitoring.