This book is a primer on clinical neurophysiology centering on EEG and evoked potentials. Its goal is to introduce learners to the engineering, physiological, and clinical underpinnings of EEG and evoked potentials.

Chapters follow a case-based format and offer a visual schematic or a patient-derived example, followed by a clear teaching point that's reinforced by a series of questions by which the student can self-test. Fundamental chapters provide basic elements of engineering or physiology; Cases illustrate disease entities or their mimics.

Pearls of EEG will be of interest to a variety of subspecialists, including EEG technologists, medical students, neurology residents, and fellows in clinical neurophysiology, epilepsy, neuro-critical care, pediatrics, neonatologists, neurological hospitalists, or sleep.

Autorentext

Mark Quigg MD MSc

TR Johns Professor of Neurology

University of Virginia

Charlottesville, VA 22902

Erika Axeen, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurology

University of Virginia

Charlottesville, VA 22902

Inhalt

Principles of Electricity.- The Source of the EEG.- Acquisition of the EEG.- The Vocabulary of EEG Description.- Normal Waking EEG.- Activation Procedures.- The Normal EEG of Sleep.- Neonatal EEG and development.- The EEG in the Older Adult.- IED, Benign Epileptiform Transients, and Focal Epilepsy.- Generalized Epileptiform Discharges and Generalized Epilepsies.- Ictal Discharges and Epileptic Seizures.- Focal Lesions.- Encephalopathy.- Periodic Discharges and Status Epilepticus.- Intracranial Monitoring.- Evoked Potentials.- The Routine EEG Report.