Full Description
Clinical Neurophysiology: Basis and Technical Aspects, the latest release in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology series, is organized into sections on basic physiological concepts, on the function and limitations of modern instrumentation, and on other fundamental or methodologic aspects related to the recording of various bioelectric signals from the nervous system for clinical or investigative purposes. There is discussion of the EEG, nerve conduction studies, needle electromyography, intra-operative clinical neurophysiology, sleep physiology and studies, the autonomic nervous system, various sensory evoked potentials, and cognitive neurophysiology.
Contents
Section 1. Basic Physiological and Recording Concepts
1. Generation and propagation of the action potential
2. Volume conduction, waveform analysis, and near and far field potentials
3. Instrumentation for electrodiagnostic studies
4. Filtering of neurophysiological signals
5. Electrical safety
Section 2. EEG: Technologic Aspects and Basic Rhythms
6. EEG source localization
7. Adult EEG
8. Child EEG (and maturation)
9. Normal EEG variants
10. Ambulatory EEG
11. Video-EEG
12. High-resolution EEG
13. Magnetoencephalography for localizing and characterizing the epileptic focus
Section 3. Nerve Conduction Studies, Methods and Techniques
14. Nerve conduction studies: Basic concepts
15. F wave, A wave, H reflex, and blink reflex
Section 4. Needle Electromyography, Methods and Techniques
16. Needle electromyography: basic concepts
17. Normal and abnormal spontaneous activity
18. Normal and abnormal voluntary activity
19. Single fiber EMG
Section 5. Intra-operative Clinical Neurophysiology, MEP, SSEP
20. Electrocorticography and functional mapping
21. Spinal cord monitoring
22. Electrophysiological mapping for deep brain stimulation for movement disorders
Section 6. Sleep Physiology and Studies
23. Sleep-wake physiology
24. Practical aspects of actigraphy and approaches in clinical and research domains
25. Polysomnography
26. The Multiple sleep latency test
Section 7. Autonomic Nervous System: Basic and Technical Aspects
27. Basics of autonomic nervous system function
28. Autonomic testing, methods and techniques
Section 8. Auditory, Visual and Somatosensory Evoked Potentials
29. Cochlea and auditory nerve
30. Auditory brainstem response
31. The auditory and association cortex and language evaluation methods
32. Electroretinograms
33. The Electrooculogram
34. Visually evoked potentials
35. Somatosensory evoked potentials
Section 9. Cognitive Neurophysiology
36. Cognitive neurophysiology: event-related potentials
37. Transcranial magnetic stimulation
