1st Edition
Making Sense of the EEG From Basic Principles to Clinical Applications
This book educates the reader on the cellular and neurophysiological aspects of Electroencephalography (EEG), alongside its technical and engineering principles. Providing a background on normal EEG, the content includes the clinical applications of EEG in epilepsies and other brain disorders in order to provide the reader with the necessary knowledge to use EEG in clinical practice.
Aimed at those who in the earlier stages of using EEGs, this resource provides an effective overview and offers a key resource to anyone using EEGs.
Foreword
Preface
About the Author
SECTION I: BASIC PRINCIPLES
1. The cellular and neurophysiological basis of EEG
2. Principles of digital EEG recording and display
3. Rules of localization
SECTION II: NORMAL EEG
4. Visual analysis of EEG: A systematic approach
5. Normal EEG in adults
6. Activation techniques
7. Artifacts: Generators, when to suspect, and how to resolve
8. Normal variants
SECTION III: ABNORMAL EEG: CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF EEG IN EPILEPSIES AND OTHER NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS
9. The spectrum of epileptiform abnormalities: Interictal, ictal, and ictal-interictal continuum
10. EEG of genetic generalized epilepsies
11. EEG of focal epilepsies
12. EEG of developmental and epileptic encephalopathies
13. Non-epileptiform EEG abnormalities
14. EEG in dementia
SECTION IV: CRITICAL CARE EEG
15. Ictal-interictal continuum
16. Non-convulsive status epilepticus
17. EEG in encephalopathy and coma
18. A systematic approach to the critical care EEG
Index
Biography
Udaya Seneviratne is an academic clinician-researcher practicing as a Neurologist/Epileptologist in Australia. He has published over 100 papers and 4 book chapters. The vast majority of his publications are in the field of EEG. Dr. Seneviratne is a regular peer-reviewer for leading epilepsy and neurophysiology journals including Epilepsia, Seizure, Epilepsy & Behavior, and Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology. He also serves on the editorial board of Frontiers in Neurology journal. Dr. Seneviratne has 20 years of experience in teaching EEGs to neurology trainees and fellows in Australia. The inspiration to author this book has emanated from the feedback from his trainees. He has utilized his vast experience in EEG teaching to make this publication a valuable handbook for trainees and fellows.
